Moscow (agencies)
Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the intensification of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with the arrival of winter as “necessary and inevitable”.
Putin made clear to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in their first phone call since mid-September that he was determined to continue current military tactics. “It has been noted that the Russian armed forces have avoided high-precision missile attacks on some targets in Ukraine for a long time, but these measures have become necessary and inevitable in the face of provocative attacks from Kiev,” the Kremlin said in a statement. Statement on the content of the call.
