EU ambassador to Ukraine: no ceasefire, Russia respects no agreements
EU Ambassador to Ukraine Katarína Mathernová has stressed that Russian terror continues across Ukraine despite peace talks and Russia's supposed agreement to a "one-week ceasefire".
Source: Mathernová on Facebook, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Mathernová said that Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with 90 attack UAVs. In the city of Dnipro, an attack UAV hit a house, killing two people. In the city of Konotop in Sumy Oblast, railway infrastructure came under attack. Explosions were also heard in a number of other cities.
Quote: "Is this what a 'ceasefire' is supposed to look like? Like explosions. Like dead civilians. Like destroyed energy and transport infrastructure…
Today's attack [on Zaporizhzhia – ed.] is yet another proof that no 'ceasefire' exists. Russia respects no agreements. None of its promises hold."
Details: Mathernová also stressed that Ukraine is currently going through a period of severe frost and that many high-rise buildings in Kyiv are still waiting for heating to be restored after previous strikes on energy infrastructure; most Ukrainians are living with power cuts lasting many hours.
"And the democratic world must not look away!!" she wrote.
Background:
- Ukraine's foreign minister called for increased pressure on Russia after the strike on a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia on 1 February, which left six people injured.
- US President Donald Trump said on 29 January that he had received Putin's agreement not to strike Kyiv "and other cities" for a week, without specifying when the period was supposed to start.
- The Kremlin said that this supposedly referred to a term until 1 February.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that there were no direct agreements between Kyiv and Moscow on stopping Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy sector, but talks on this were ongoing, including in Abu Dhabi. He also emphasised that Ukraine would respond to Russia's actions in kind.
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