War in Ukraine: without American help, Ukraine says it does not have a “plan B”… update on the situation
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Tous les jours, Midi Libre fait le point sur la situation en Ukraine. Ce jeudi 4 janvier 2024, découvrez les dernières actualités autour de ce conflit.
Aide américaine-L'Ukraine dit ne pas avoir de "plan B"
Ukraine sees no other solution than obtaining military aid from the United States to counter Russia, and it is convinced the program ;#39;aid debated in Congress will be approved, Ukraine's foreign minister said Wednesday. "We don'plan B. We have confidence in plan A", Dmitro Kouleba said in an interview with CNN.
"Ukraine will always fight with the resources given to it. And what is given to Ukraine is not charity. “It's an investment in protecting NATO and protecting the prosperity of the American people,” he added. Dmitro Kouleba estimated that if Russia won, “other leaders would be tempted to follow (in his) footsteps.
Ensuring security in this part of the world and deterring these leaders will have a much higher cost for the United States. Ukraine's foreign minister says officials who suggest Russian President Vladimir Putin would never attack a NATO member state if Russia were victorious in Ukraine are “committing a huge mistake.
They should change positions. Uncertainties surround the future of the $61 billion aid program debated in the US Congress, while Republicans refuse to approve this aid without an agreement on strengthening security at the border with Mexico. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky visited Washington last month to try to convince Congress to approve the aid package.
One dead and power cuts after Russian missile strike
A Russian missile strike on the town of Kropivnitsky in central Ukraine killed one person, damaged two energy facilities and caused power cuts to civilians and the road iron, Ukrainian officials announced Thursday.
One of the affected sites was a repair and energy production facility, Ukrainian national grid operator Ukrenergo said on Telegram messaging. "The damage did not cause any outages on the main network,” added Ukrenergo.
Another installation, the type of which is unknown and which is connected to another energy operator, was targeted by the attack. Ukraine's Energy Ministry said in a separate statement that technicians were working to restore power supply to domestic consumers and railways cut off following the strike.
Russia appears to have used an X-59 type missile, the region's governor, Andriy Raikovitch, said during a press briefing. “Workers were injured. One worker unfortunately died. He was just an auto mechanic, he added.
Official data shows at least seven injured. Andriy Raikovitch added on Telegram that all these people had been hit by shrapnel.
Russia intensified its attacks on Ukraine at the turn of the year, launching hundreds of missiles of various types and “Shahed” drones. of Iranian manufacture since December 29. Ukraine, for its part, launched a series of attacks against Crimea annexed by Moscow and on the bridge linking the peninsula to Russia.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday that its forces had foiled a Ukrainian attack on Russian facilities in Crimea and destroyed ten Ukrainian missiles over the peninsula.