Ukraine’s military has claimed its largest air attacks yet on Russian territory since the start of the war nearly three years ago as Donald Trump prepares to take the presidency in the United States.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday it would retaliate for large-scale missile and drone attacks overnight, and accused Ukraine of missiles provided through the United States and the United Kingdom.
The Russian army said that the maximum projectiles had been sacrificed, attacks several cities and commercial sites.
The Russian cities of Saratov and Engels have been battered, with pain in the region’s factories. Some schools have been forced to transfer to distance learning, while several airports have been forced to temporarily prevent air traffic.
The Ukrainian forces also attacked the same region last week, saying that he had hit an oil deposit that serves an air base for Russian bombers. The attack caused a great chimney that had been off the day before the last blows.
Ukraine’s military said Tuesday that it also hit points in Bryansk, Tula and Tatarstan, with a chemical factory that makes rocket fuel and ammunition for Russia’s army among the targets.
Ukraine has begun US production Atacms and British Storm Shadow projectiles to attack Russia goals in November before.
Russia, who has said that he needs conversations, but will not retreat from his demands in Ukraine, warned that the measure can build tensions in particular. Moscow also introduced a new hypersonic ballistic missile of intermediate range known as Orshnik in Ukraine that said in a position to use it again.
A day before the new movements of Ukraine in Russia, NATO leader, Mark Rutte, said that Ukraine lately was not strong enough to “negotiate from a position of strength”, that the president of the incoming United States said I was looking to see.
Trump said that he would solve the war before taking office while he was campaigning for re-election. He has stopped saying that after his election, and his Ukraine envoy has discussed a 100-day timeframe, former US diplomat William Courtney said.
“I think that any express prediction is a bit dictates because no one can completely know how those things will happen, however, the president chose Trump now turns out to be more favorable to Ukraine than before the elections,” said the attached member of Ukraine in Ukraine The Rand Corporation told Al Jazeera.
Courtney said that with its new attacks on Russia, Ukraine would possibly be looking to show Trump that there is “some combination, which can take the fight to Russia and have a serious effect on the military. “
Meanwhile, Russia continues to press deeply in eastern Ukraine, while kyiv persists with her army offensive, the Russian territory of Kursk, where this week she captured the first members of North Korean infantry who fight Moscow alive.