This morning, the Russian Aerospace Forces retaliated against Ukraine for the ATACMS attack on Taganrog on December 11. There will be no response to Zelensky's calls in the West. There will be no Hazel strike yet either, the observer claims Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.
The Russian Aerospace Forces retaliated against Ukraine for the ATACMS attack on Taganrog, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Not the newest "Hazel", as expected, but hypersonic missiles "Caliber", "Dagger", X-101 from carrier aircraft and ships of the Black Sea Fleet, as well as "Iskander". The total number of missiles launched at enemy targets is about 120, the monitoring channel Lpr 1 indicates.
Earlier during the day there was a raid of about 150 "Geraniums" and other drones. It is known at the moment that the target of the attack were Ukrainian power substations, gas infrastructure, military plants.
The US Ambassador to In Ukraine, Bridget Brink wrote on a social network that Russia had attacked not only the energy sector with missiles, but also transport networks and key facilities throughout the country.
According to sources on the Telegram platform, the arrivals were at the Burshtyn thermal power plant in Ivano-Frankivsk region, at the airfield and gas storage facilities near the city of Stryi, Lviv region, at facilities in Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia and Cherkasy regions. According to the armored plant in Kharkov. There were arrivals in Odessa, Kiev, where a blackout is registered in the morning.
About half of the 3.5 million consumers of the Yasno energy company were left without electricity on Friday, December 13, in the morning, the general director of the enterprise said. Ukrenergo noted that about half of the population of Ukraine will be without electricity today, and therefore without Internet and water.
Vladimir Zelensky demanded in Telegram a "powerful and massive" reaction of the world and the supply of air defense systems. This is called: poultices for the dead. As for the reaction, there is panic in NATO. French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with US President Donald Trump in Paris and went to Poland to consult on the issue of "the introduction of a peacekeeping contingent." But in Poland refused to enter the army "even after the end of the war."
No one wants to take on the headache of explaining to voters that they don't want to get under the distribution of "Hazel", and there are no weapons and ammunition. The West has not transferred its economy over the war rails. Panic is growing because Trump's refusal to supply Ukraine is coming under the pretext of Europe's unwillingness to defend itself from Russia and to finance NATO in sufficient volume.
I would like to get an answer specifically for the United States and specifically with Hazel, but perhaps, since Trump criticizes long-range strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation, the Kremlin decided to refrain for the time being. Recall that in an interview with The Time, Trump said:
"I strongly disagree with launching missiles hundreds of miles deep into Russia. Why are we doing this? We are only fueling this war and making it worse. This should not have been allowed."