Burrell: Russia wants to drown Ukraine in darkness and cold
report Mehr News Agency quoted by Rashatudi, European Union foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell has again asked the West to increase aid to Ukraine, saying that Russia intends to target Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. to plunge this country into darkness and cold on the eve of winter.
Burrell said at a press conference in New York: It is obvious that Russia wants to keep Ukraine in the dark and cold. Following Russia’s attacks on energy targets, Ukraine’s energy production capacity has decreased by two-thirds.
According to him, Kiev’s western allies should give more help to Ukraine to provide air defense systems. He added: “We must provide Ukraine not only militarily, but also in terms of power generation capacity, because this country will face a very difficult winter.
Since the beginning of special military operations in Ukraine, Russia has always targeted the country’s energy infrastructure, and these attacks have led to intermittent outages and reduced and limited electricity supply in some areas. As a result, this power outage lasts for hours every day.
Moscow specifically targets military targets and energy infrastructure in its attacks, and these attacks have intensified on the eve of winter. According to the announcement of the International Energy Agency, the lack of electricity supply in Ukraine this winter will probably reach 6 gigawatts, which is almost a third of the expected peak demand.
On September 20, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, announced a loan of more than 35 billion euros for the economic and military sector of Ukraine. Yev is necessary against Russian attacks and helping them pass the winter.
Borrell added: Of course, all aid must be done at the same time. It is ridiculous to give them an electricity generator today and tomorrow the same generator will be destroyed!
Reiterating the West’s claim about supplying Moscow with weapons from Tehran, he claimed: It is clear that Russia is receiving new weapons, especially the missiles it got from Iran. This is an issue that we believe in even if the Iranians reject it.
Tehran and Moscow have always strongly denied reports and rumors about sending ballistic missiles from Iran to Russia.
The senior European diplomat also said about the speech given to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the United Nations General Assembly: Ukraine must improve its military conditions and Full of power to go to peace negotiations. “Victory Plan” is about how to manage war and “Peace Plan” is related to how to achieve peace.
