The alarms began to sound to the 04:26 in the morning. They usually do it almost every night, but this was extraordinary, more intense, more noisy. A few minutes later, kyiv’s frozen sky was the stage of a Battle between anti -aircraft defenses (cannons and missiles) and a rain of ballistic missiles and drones launched by Russia. The Spanish newspaper was able to account at least Six strong explosions. Emergency services had to carry out interventions in at least four districts in the cold morning of the capital, at -10 ºC. The battle was won by Ukraine, which knocked down the artifacts. It was lost a kievita who died and ten people who were injured, probably because of the effects of heliles and fragments of the missiles mostly.
The images, once raised the veil of the night, show some buildings in the central neighborhoods of the capital burned and with damage in some high plants. kyiv is the safest area in the country. The presence of a complex defensive system to protect government buildings and the presidential make the casualties in the city center not very common. Last August, a missile shattered part of the Maternal Child Hospital of the city. But, in general, kyiv is a vibrant capital, with frequent traffic jams, restaurants and cultural scene. A city that, after three years of war, has become accustomed to living Under the sound of anti -aircraft alarmsnormally nocturnal, and normalize them.
“I check the accounts that say What kind of attack we are suffering. If I see that it is important, I raise my children (8, 12 and 14 years old) and bass the basement of the pastry, “says Stanislav Zavertailo, 45 -year -old businessman owner of a chain of luxury pastries in the capital.” I tell you that we get up early, at three oa four in the morning, such as when we went to take a vacation flight to Egypt. And then they can have breakfast croasanes. “
Peace for territories
President Volodimir Zelenski has condemned the Russian mass attack This morning. “Last night, Russia has launched ballistic missiles and drones against Ukraine, damaging apartment buildings, office complexes and civil infrastructure,” he said in Telegram. “Russian terror against Ukraine will not stop alone. Putin is not prepared for peacecontinues to kill Ukrainians and destroy their cities. “
Hours before, Zelenski had spoken in an interview of exchange of territories For potential peace negotiations.
The president of Ukraine said Tuesday that he will propose a “exchange” of territories to Russia In the event that his American counterpart, Donald Trump, manages to organize peace negotiations with Kremlin in the framework of the Russian invasion of the European country, triggered on February 24, 2022 by order of the Russian president, Vladimir Putininforma Europa Press
In an interview with the British newspaper ‘The Guardian’, the Ukrainian president has proposed to give up the lands he has maintained under his control in the Russian region of Kursk for six months, when the Ukrainian troops launched a surprising incursion. “We will exchange one territory for another”he has declared, although he added that he does not know which part of the Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia would ask for Ukraine in return. “Don’t know, We’ll see. But all our territories are important, there is no priority, “he said.
Zelenski has recognized that if Trump withdraws US support to kyiv, Europe alone will not be able to fill that void. “There are voices that say that Europe could offer security guarantees Without Americans, I always say no. Security guarantees without the US are not real security guarantees, “he said.
That is why the Ukrainian Head of State has been willing to negotiate, as long as his country is in a “Force position”in order to prevent an agreement negotiated by Washington to imply that you have to capitulate before the demands of Putin. Thus, he has indicated that he would offer US companies “lucrative” reconstruction and investment concessions to try to convince the White House tenant.
In fact, one of the proposed ideas-as Trump has already advanced-is the US access to the calls ‘rare earth’ of Ukrainea group formed by a fortnight of metals that are used in the automotive, telephony industry and other electronic devices. Zelenski has assured that he presented this plan to Trump in September, when they met in New York, and that he intends to present “a more detailed plan.”
Ukraine has the biggest Uranium and titanium reserves of EuropeZelenski said, and “is not in the interest of the United States” that these reservations are in Russian hands and are potentially shared with North Korea, China or Iran. But, as he has considered, it is not only a security incentive, but an economic one.
In this sense, he stressed that these are “valuable” natural resources that can offer “possibilities” to those partners who did not invested in them before. “For us it will create jobs, for US companies, it will create profits,” he added.
On the other hand, he has considered that it is “too soon” to judge the administration of Joe BidenTrump’s predecessor, while relations between Washington and kyiv are cooling. When asked if he believed that Biden would go down in history as the man who helped save Ukraine or who responded very slowly to Putin’s challenge, Zelenski has said, among laughs, that it is “very difficult” to say it at this time.
While he has criticized Biden’s initial will to provide weapons to Ukraine, considering that “that lack of trust gave Russia,” said Ukraine is Grateful for all the help delivered since then. “History shows that there are many things that simply do not know, what happened behind the scene, what negotiations there was … it is difficult to characterize everything today because we do not know everything. Later we will know, we will know everything,” he added .
On the eve, Trump left the door open to the possibility that Ukraine “can be Russian one day.” After that, the Kremlin claimed that “a significant part of Ukraine wants to be part of Russia” and, in fact, “it is already”, by assuming as Russians the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporiyia and Jersón.
