Kremlin says it’s ‘absurd’ to blame Russia for gas pipeline sabotage
The Kremlin said today that it is “absurd” to try to blame Russia for the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, after the Copenhagen Police reported on Tuesday that the damage to both infrastructures was caused by “powerful explosions”.
“At least from the statements we heard from Germany, France and Denmark, this a priori investigation has been aimed at endorsing the responsibility (for sabotage) on Russia. It is absurd,” stressed the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov, in his daily telephone press conference.
He added that the data from the Russian secret services points completely in another direction, alluding to the fact that, as Moscow has stated, the biggest beneficiaries of the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines are the United States and Ukraine.
“Furthermore, you just have to use the most elementary logic to understand that such sabotage causes great harm to Russian interests,” Peskov stressed.
US threatens to sanction any link to Iranian drones after attacks on kyiv
The United States warned on Monday that it would take action against companies and countries that cooperate with Iran’s drone program after Russia used drones imported from the Islamic nation to attack Iran. Ukraineincluding the capital, kyiv.
“Anyone doing business with Iran that may have any link to the development of drones or ballistic missiles, or to the flow of weapons from Iran to Russia should exercise extreme caution and act diligently: the United States will not hesitate to resort to sanctions or take action against the perpetrators,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters.
“Russia’s deepening alliance with Iran is something that the whole world … frankly should see as a huge threat,” he added.
Russia destroyed 30% of Ukraine’s power plants in a week, according to Zelensky
Russia destroyed in little more than a week 30% of the power plants of Ukraine with its bombings that caused “massive” cuts, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski denounced on Tuesday.
“Since October 10, 30% of Ukrainian plants have been destroyed, leading to massive outages across the country,” Zelensky said on Twitter, reiterating his refusal to negotiate with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
The capital of Ukraine and several regions of the country suffered electricity and water cuts on Tuesday, after morning Russian attacks on critical infrastructure for the second day in a row, local authorities said.
The Kremlin says it ignores whether its army uses Iranian drones in Ukraine
The Kremlin said on Tuesday “it had no information” about the use by its army of Iranian-made drones in Ukraineafter kyiv accused Moscow of using them to attack water and electricity infrastructure.
“We have no such information,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov responded to a journalist’s question about whether Moscow is using Iranian drones in Ukraine. “Russian technology is used with Russian names,” added the spokesman, who referred to the Defense Ministry.
At least two killed in Russian attacks in kyiv, prosecutors say
At least two people were killed in Russian strikes on critical infrastructure in kyiv on Tuesday, which led to power and water cuts in parts of the city, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said.
“The Russian armed forces … launched a missile attack on a power supply facility on the left bank of the capital kyiv. According to preliminary information, two people were killed and one was injured,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. a statement.
kyiv suffers a new Russian attack against an electrical infrastructure
Russian forces today launched a new attack on kyiv and hit an electricity supply facility, reported the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitaliy Klitschkó.
“Explosions again in kyiv in the morning. Desnyan neighborhood. Installation of critical infrastructure. All (emergency) services are in place,” the mayor wrote on his Telegram account.
Klitschko added that these were “two critical infrastructure targets” and assured that the emergency and rescue services are already working on the scene.
“Currently the water and electricity supply services are partially limited in many homes on the left bank of the capital,” he said.