Putin makes guarantees, his military continues to fireplace | EUROtoday

The first particulars of the decision between the Russian and the American President had simply grow to be recognized when the air alarm cried in lots of areas of Ukraine. According to Donald Trump, Wladimir Putin had stated to have the assaults on Ukrainian vitality techniques for 30 days.

Nevertheless, in line with Kiev, the Russian military shot 145 drones on the night time and a number of other rockets on the neighboring nation. The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj added vitality techniques once more on Wednesday morning. “This is the value of Putin’s promise,” he stated to journalists within the Finnish capital Helsinki. The United States must test the corresponding bulletins. “Putin kept Trump as a fool, and the attacks show that night,” stated MP Wolodymyr Arijew from the opposition get together “European solidarity” of the FAZ on Wednesday. The Russian dictator doesn’t need to be a part of the US president’s peace plan.

The Russian Ministry of Defense, nonetheless, claimed that on Putin’s instructions by shot down seven of its personal drones that geared toward vitality techniques in South Ukraine. Selenskyj known as Trump on Wednesday. Trump spoke of a “very good” and Selenskyj of “very” substantial and open dialog “. The Ukrainian President confirmed the willingness of Ukraine for an armistice in the energy sector.

In fact, he had proposed this before the talks in Dschidda last week. Accordingly, the Ukrainian political scientist Wolodymyr Fesenko now sees a partial success for Ukraine. What Trump and Putin had discussed partially reflects the Ukraine negotiating position, he told the FAZ on Putin’s demands, on the other hand, the White House was not received. In general, however, the agreement means that “the complicated and contradictory battle for the peace course of and the concept of ​​an armistice continues for Ukraine”.

Selenskyj also made it clear on Wednesday that he did not want to watch if Russia further attacks energy systems. At night, Ukraine once again attacked an oil camp in the southern Russian area of ​​Krasnodar. Videos were shared on the net to show how it is on fire.

The Ukrainian army has strengthened its attacks on Russian refineries, fuel and ammunition camps in recent months. In the summer, the analyst Sergey Vaculenko from Carnegie Center wrote that it was about showing what Ukraine is able to raise, on the one hand. After all, some goals were more than 1500 kilometers away from the border. In addition, Kiev probably expect long -term costs through repairs and loss of income, which in turn affected Russia’s military possibilities. It is also about weakening the Russian economy.

At that time, the economic effects of the Ukrainian attacks were hardly measurable. Russia has huge resources, produces two and a half times as much fuel as the domestic market consumes, and continues to export oil and gas, especially to China and India. That now seems to have changed. Ukrainian media assume that the Russian refinery volume has dropped to the lowest level since 2012.

In February, the Reuters agency analyzed that the production capacity of Russian refineries had broken down by ten percent since the beginning of the year. Larger systems such as in Rjasan, Wolgograd or Astrachan have interrupted fuel production; It will take weeks or months for it to be completely restored. According to Reuters, oil exports from the Russian ports of Primorsk, Ust-Luga and Novorossijsk decreased by 17 percent in January compared to the previous year.

Russia had started to attack the Ukrainian energy infrastructure in autumn 2022. In November, the Kyiv School of Economics put the damage in the Ukrainian energy sector at $ 14.6 billion. Several water and heat power plants were completely destroyed.

Now the Ukrainians virtually have the third battle winter. They have gotten used to the electrical energy shutdowns, bear in mind mills and energy banks in inventory, gentle candles when the sunshine fails and use their water provides when the pumps are within the homes. The Ukrainian vitality corporations and community operators are working across the clock to restore harm. In addition, electrical energy imports from EU international locations help-and three nuclear energy vegetation nonetheless provide the nation with vitality.