Russia responds to sabotage of the Crimean bridge

United Nations, United States. Yesterday, October 10, Ukraine called Russia a “terrorist state” after the Russian bombardments on its territory, condemned by the United Nations and the West, when presenting a resolution to the UN condemning the annexation of regions of this country by Moscow.

“Russia has once again shown that it is a terrorist state that must be dissuaded in the strongest possible way,” said the Ukrainian ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, after the rain of missiles and drones that fell yesterday on Ukrainian territory and that have been claimed the lives of at least 11 people and injured 64.

Some attacks that for the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, are “a new unacceptable escalation of the war” and show, according to the US president, Joe Biden, “the absolute brutality” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. European diplomacy branded them “barbaric” and NATO “horrible and indiscriminate.”

“Of the 84 Russian missiles fired at Ukraine, 43 were shot down. While of the 24 Russian drones, 13 were shot down,” President Zelensky reported late on Monday.

The Russian ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, recalled that the “sabotage” of the bridge that connects Crimea, a peninsula unilaterally annexed in 2014 by Moscow, with Russian territory, was not going to go “unpunished” and compared the kyiv regime with the “worst terrorist organizations”.

Former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev commented that yesterday’s attacks are the “first episode” and called for political dismantling in Ukraine.

The G7 leaders will discuss the situation in Ukraine today, Berlin announced.

In kyiv, police said at least five people were killed and a dozen wounded.

Ukrainian authorities said the capital’s central Shevkenko district was hit and a university, museums and the philharmonic building were damaged.

Lviv in western Ukraine, largely spared from the fighting to date, was also shelled, leaving part of the city without electricity or hot water, its mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.

The 193 UN countries will vote on the “illegal” annexations of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, after the “so-called referendums” held at the end of September, which “have no validity under international law.”

Biden-Zelensky

US President Joe Biden promised yesterday, October 10, to provide advanced air defense systems to Ukraine.

Biden spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenskiy, and “pledged to continue providing Ukraine with the necessary support to defend itself, including advanced air defense systems,” according to a statement.

In a call, Biden expressed his “condolences” after the bombings.