On Monday morning, more than 75 rocket attacks were carried out against civilian targets in Ukraine, according to the authorities in Kyiv. At 12 noon today, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the attacks. He says they came as a response to a series of Ukrainian “terrorist acts”. – This morning, according to the plan of the military authorities, attacks were carried out with long-range rockets against energy facilities, defense facilities and communication facilities. It was not possible to let the Ukrainian threats go unanswered. The answers from the Russian side will be harsh, and correspond to the threat from the Ukrainian side, Putin said in a speech. At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense claims that all the targets that were set were hit. Meeting of Russia’s Security Council Immediately after the speech, a meeting of Russia’s Security Council began. Such meetings are held weekly. But this meeting comes just days after a Ukrainian attack caused widespread destruction on the bridge between the Crimean peninsula and the Russian mainland on Saturday. Many now believe that Russia is at a strategic turning point in the war. Ukrainian forces have only since the beginning of October recaptured more than 2,400 square kilometers in Kherson, in the south of the country. Belarus deploys joint forces with Russia The President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, says today that Belarus and Russia will deploy joint military troops. It is currently unknown what the troops will do, and how many there are. The deployment comes in response to what Lukashenko called a worsening of tensions on the country’s western borders. That’s what Reuters writes, quoting the state news agency Belta from Belarus. Lukashenko claims that Ukraine is “not only discussing, but planning attacks on Belarus”. Russian forces used Belarus as a staging post before the invasion in February.
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