Russia faces Ukraine casualties, broken communications and total oil ban
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Russia unleashes deadly air assaults on civilians as Ukraine’s Zelenskyy promises new front-line tactics.
Russia unleashed a massive air assault on Ukraine’s cities on the day French Defence Minister Catherine Vautrin visited Kyiv. The February 7 assault was a repeat of Moscow’s similarly powerful attack on the day of NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte’s visit days earlier, on February 3.
Beyond punishing Ukraine for strengthening its defence ties to the West, the attacks had a progressive character, said St Andrews University history professor Phillips O Brien.
“The first attack focusses on the east, particularly Kyiv and towns/cities near the front. Then a few days later, having extended and exhausted Ukrainian air [defence], the Russian assaults moved westward,” he wrote on Substack.
Sunday’s attack involved 408 drones and 39 missiles.
Kyiv downed all but 26 drones and 24 of the missiles, but the remainder dealt devastating damage to energy infrastructure, including, said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to “facilities critical” to the nation’s nuclear power plants
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