Russia can’t win on the battlefield, so it’s finding other ways to torment Ukrainian civilians, Zelenskyy tells UN

“These are deliberate Russian attacks on our powerplants and entire energy grid,” he said, noting that it has destroyed all Ukrainian thermal power plants and a large part of the hydro-electric capacity.

“This is how [President] Putin is preparing for winter, hoping to torment millions of Ukrainians – ordinary families, women and children, and ordinary towns and villages. Putin wants to leave them in the dark and cold this winter forcing Ukraine to suffer and surrender.”

President Zelenskyy asked the leaders, assembled in the General Assembly Hall for the annual general debate, to imagine the situation in their countries, if 80 per cent of their energy systems are destroyed.

“What kind of life will that be?”

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