Zelenskyy: Russia planning new large-scale attack on Ukraine targeting energy and logistics infrastructure

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, citing intelligence reports, that Russia is preparing to carry out a new large-scale attack on Ukraine.

Source: Zelenskyy in his evening address on 2 November

Quote: "We have intel that Russia is preparing a new massive attack on our country – primarily targeting energy and logistics."

Details: Zelenskyy said the Russians are counting on the world's attention being focused on "the American midterms, and what is happening here in Ukraine, along with our difficulties with air defence and Patriot missiles, will be overlooked".

"We need signals from the world to Russia that will make them feel that terror is no good, that it will bring no gains, and that as long as this war continues, their oil will burn, and they will not be able to make money doing business with the world," the president noted.

Zelenskyy stressed that "we must not play games" when it comes to Russia's oil and gas revenues. Russia must be put under such pressure that it has no alternative but to end the war.

Quote: "America can do this, the world can do this. These Russian killings must be stopped. And we in Ukraine are quite rightly responding to every Russian attack on our people and our cities."

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