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Russia has amplified its attacks on Ukraine despite insistence it is open to peace talks
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Russia<\/a> launched a blistering assault on Ukraine<\/a> overnight, killing at least six people and injuring 35. Some 430 drones and 18 missiles<\/a> targeted the country, Ukraine\u2019s president said, calling the strikes<\/a> a deliberate and calculated attack \u201caimed at causing maximum harm to people and civilian infrastructure\u201d.
Ukraine\u2019s air force said most of the drones and missiles were shot down, but officials said falling debris and fires damaged high-rise apartments, a school, a medical facility and administrative buildings across nine districts in the city of about three million.
“At that moment you don’t know what to do first: save yourself, your child, or run to help people, because so many people were screaming and needed help,” said Anastasia, 29, whose apartment block was hit.
The attacks came just two days after Russia\u2019s foreign ministry indicated it was ready to resume direct talks with Ukraine on ending the war in Istanbul. An official told TASS the \u201cball is in Ukraine\u2019s court\u201d.
Russia continues to escalate its strikes on Ukraine while coordinating its messaging to present a show of good faith to the United States. Nearly four years since the invasion, the Kremlin maintains its maximalist designs on Ukraine.
Zelensky said that Ukraine was responding to the strikes with \u201clong-range strength\u201d, and called for greater sanctions to be imposed on Russia.
Russia has waged a devastating aerial campaign against Ukraine since its all-out invasion of its neighbour nearly four years ago. US-led diplomatic efforts this year to stop the fighting have so far come to nothing.
Friday’s aerial assault, which also targeted Odesa in the south and Kharkiv in the northeast, was mostly aimed at Kyiv<\/a>, where drones and missiles smashed into high-rise apartment blocks, according to Zelensky.
Mariia Kalchenko said it was a miracle she survived after her building was hit. “I didn’t hear anything, I just realised that my hair was on fire,” the 46-year-old volunteer rescue dog handler said.
In the Odesa region, Russian drones struck a busy street on market day in Chornomorsk, killing two people and injuring 11 others, including a 19-month-old girl, regional military administration chief Oleh Kiper said.
Moscow denies targeting civilian areas, with the Russian Defense Ministry saying Friday it carried out an overnight strike on Ukraine’s “military-industrial and energy facilities.”
Analysts nevertheless accuse Russia of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in order to wound morale.
Natia Seskuria, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), said that the \u201csystematic\u201d targeting of civilian infrastructure was a \u201ccentral element\u201d of Russia\u2019s strategy, \u201cdesigned to terrorise the Ukrainian population and erode public morale\u201d.
\u201cThe underlying calculation is that a war-weary society subjected to sustained attacks might exert pressure on the government to accept almost any settlement that promises an end to hostilities,\u201d she told The Independent. <\/em>
\u201cThus far, however, this strategy has proven ineffective, as Ukrainians have demonstrated remarkable resilience and determination in the face of ongoing aggression.\u201d
Friday\u2019s attack was the biggest on Kyiv in almost three weeks. Most recent Russian aerial attacks have aimed at electricity infrastructure around the country ahead of the bitter winter months.
With no sign of the war abating, millions of Ukrainians face one of the harshest winters in years as humanitarian organisations scramble to deliver essentials to the frontlines and affected areas.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned on Friday that people whose livelihoods have been destroyed by the war are entering the winter with \u201cno financial buffer\u201d to support themselves.
Frequent power cuts continue to plunge neighbourhoods into darkness, cut heating and force hospitals to use emergency power. For older people and vulnerable people in high-rise buildings, blackouts can mean hours or days of isolation without elevators, heat, and often without food or medicine, the IFRC warned.
\u201cAlmost four years of conflict have eroded people\u2019s resources. Many families are entering this winter with no financial buffer \u2013 seven out of ten people said they don\u2019t have any savings left,\u201d said Jaime Wah, Deputy Head of Delegation for IFRC in Ukraine.
\u201cWe have been providing support to people for several years, but our resources are also running thin,\u201d Wah added. \u201cThe scale of the needs is overwhelming, and with each passing day, those needs only grow.\u201d
Keir Giles, a fellow of the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, told The Independent<\/em> that Moscow\u2019s attacks are designed to \u201ccause the maximum possible misery<\/a> and suffering among the civilian population\u201d.
\u201cThat\u2019s the principle we saw applied in Syria, in Chechnya and in countless others of Moscow\u2019s wars dating back decades and centuries,\u201d he said.
Mr Giles said Ukraine was \u201cthe victim of Russia\u2019s attempts to demoralise its victims through inhumanity.
\u201cThat\u2019s the reason for attacks on maternity hospitals, and nurseries, targeting the most vulnerable in society, as well as for the systematic torture and starvation of Ukrainian military and civilian captives \u2013 not for any objective purpose other than deliberate and demonstrative cruelty.\u201d
These attacks continue despite Russia\u2019s insistence that it is open to talks moving towards a ceasefire.
Foreign ministry official Alexei Polishchuk said on Wednesday that Russia was ready to resume negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul. No face-to-face talks have taken place between the two sides since they met in the Turkish city on July 23.
Overtures towards peace come after a proposed summit between Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump broke down in October, reportedly over Moscow\u2019s intransigence over its demands.
The two leaders have not met since August, when a summit held in Alaska<\/a> failed to produce a deal. Mr Trump said the meeting was \u201cvery productive\u201d, but the diplomatic push to end the war has yet to yield any results.
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