Russia fired 1,250 aerial bombs, over 750 assault drones, and 20 missiles at Ukraine within the final week, President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned on Jan 26.
The assaults focused Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Donetsk, Kherson, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts. One of many worst assaults of the week killed at the least one individual and injured 45 in Zaporizhzhia after Russian forces pummeled town with drones and missiles, hitting condo blocks.
In a single day on Jan. 25-26, Russian troops launched 72 drones. Ukraine’s air protection downed 50, mentioned the Air Drive.
“Lengthy-range capabilities are essential. Sanctions are important. Reducing the worth of oil is vital. The bottom line is to behave in unity and shield lives with resolve,” Zelensky wrote on social media.
In one in all his first handle since taking workplace, President Donald Trump threatened to leverage sanctions towards Moscow in addition to deal with oil costs that hold Russia’s financial system afloat.
Throughout his speech to the World Financial Discussion board (WEF) in Davos on Jan. 23, Trump mentioned that reducing oil costs would finish Russia’s battle towards Ukraine “instantly.” He mentioned he would ask the Group of the Petroleum Exporting Nations (OPEC) to lower oil costs.
He’s additionally pushed for ramped-up drilling for U.S. oil and fuel which may additionally undermine Russia’s gas sector.
A day earlier than the WEF, Trump mentioned that if a "deal" to finish the battle in Ukraine was not reached quickly, he would haven’t any selection however to "put excessive ranges of taxes, tariffs, and sanctions on something being bought by Russia to the US and different collaborating nations."
The Kyiv IndependentOlena Goncharova