Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Sunday that war was coming to Russia after a drone strike damaged two office buildings in a Moscow neighborhood.
“The war is gradually returning to the territory of Russia, to its symbolic centers and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process,” declared the Ukrainian leader, on the sidelines of a visit to Ivano-Frankivsk, in the west. from the country.
“Ukraine is getting stronger,” he stressed, before admitting that the country should prepare for new attacks on energy infrastructure next winter.
“We must be prepared for this both at the state level and at the level of each community, of each of our cities and towns,” he added, in statements broadcast by the Telegram channel of the Presidential Office.
Russia announced in the morning that it had thwarted two Ukrainian drone strikes.
The first targeted the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014. The second targeted an office complex in Moscow, where the glass in several windows shattered, according to an AFP photographer.
The Russian capital’s international airport was briefly closed by the attack.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, three drones were responsible for the attack in Moscow. One of them was shot down and the other two were “neutralized by electronic warfare”.
Zelensky affirmed that Ukraine “is and will be a guarantor of world food security” after Pope Francis today asked Russia to renew the grain export agreement.
“The reaction of world religious leaders to the terror of Russian missiles and the destruction of Ukrainian agricultural products is extremely important,” he said in a message posted on social networks, when it comes to protecting the world from a food crisis.
This applies especially “to the peoples of Africa and Asia, who are the ones who suffer the most from the threat of famine,” added the Ukrainian president.
In this sense, the “key” now lies in “stopping Russian terror and fully implementing the Peace Formula,” Zelensky said, referring to kyiv’s plan to end the conflict.
Pope Francis today appealed to the authorities of the Russian Federation to reestablish the Black Sea initiative that allows the export of Ukrainian grain and that was suspended on July 17 by Moscow.
Russia withdrew from the agreement reached in July 2022 on the grounds that the part concerning the export of Russian fertilizers was not being respected.
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