While Russia and the United States negotiate the peace plan in Abu Dhabi of Donald Trump, a Russian bombing this Tuesday left a new trail of death in kyiv. The invader’s missiles and drones have caused seven deaths and twenty injuries in the early hours of the morning.
The attack had, again, the electrical network and water in the capital as main objectives. The invader has used more than 460 Shahed long range bomb drones and 22 ballistic and cruise missiles. The fatalities occurred in two districts of kyiv, in residential and industrial areas.
This Tuesday’s is another attack of the current one Russian campaign to destroy the energy system Ukraine. The citizens of kyiv have been living for a month with power outages of more than 12 hours a day, and with interruptions in the heating and water systems. The difference is that this bombing has occurred while delegations from the Kremlin and Washington have been negotiating since Monday in Abu Dhabi the content of the so-called “peace plan” that the American president wants to reach a consensus with the two sides in the war.
“The main objective [del enemigo] “It has been the energy system and everything that guarantees a normal life,” the Ukrainian president wrote, Volodímir Zelenskion their social networks. The president has emphasized, without mentioning Trump, that negotiations to end the war must be carried out as a team, between Western allies, and not bilaterally: “The key now is for all partners to move together in diplomacy, with united efforts, so that the pressure on Russia works.”
Trump-Zelensky meeting
Zelensky’s words also call for correcting the mess that has caused Trump’s peace plan, which was drawn up at the end of October between two trusted men of the American and the Russian, Steve Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev, respectively. The result was a 28-point text that was a humiliation for Ukraine because it contemplated practically all of the Kremlin’s demands.
The Trump and Zelensky teams met last weekend in Geneva (Switzerland) to review the document. The negotiations allowed the decision on the most controversial points to be postponed until a future interview between the two presidents. Rustem Umerov, secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine, reported this Tuesday that they are working to have the meeting between the two leaders this November in Washington.
Andrii Yermak, Zelensky’s right-hand man, has detailed to the media Axios that the interview between the two leaders will possibly be held immediately or immediately after Thanksgiving, which is celebrated this Thursday. Yermak has described the initial 28-point proposal as “unacceptable.” “But it is now a thing of the past,” added the head of the Ukrainian presidential office.
Ukraine and the United States are ironing out the details of the peace proposal, but both Umerov and other representatives of Zelensky’s inner circle say the document now meets Ukrainian interests. “We have achieved an understanding on the central issues,” Umerov wrote. Karoline Leavitt, the White House spokesperson, stated this Tuesday that her Government has made “enormous progress toward a peace agreement that brings Ukraine and Russia to the negotiating table.” Leavitt has noted that there are “some delicate details” still to be worked out.
The US side is evaluating the content of the modified plan this Tuesday in Abu Dhabi with a Russian delegation. Leading Trump’s emissaries is the Secretary of the US Army, Dan Driscoll. It was precisely he who officially delivered the controversial plan to Zelensky on November 20 in kyiv.
One day before, November 19, a massive Russian bombing of the western provinces of Ukraine had caused 35 deaths in the city of Ternopil. Before Tuesday, the last attack on kyiv with multiple casualties occurred on November 14, when Russia killed seven civilians.
One difference between the early Tuesday offensive and the previous two is that Russia has acted with two phases of missile attacks. Their usual tactic is to first reach the target area with waves of Shahed drones, thus overwhelming the anti-aircraft defenses. The last phase is the firing of missiles.
On this occasion, however, there has been a first phase in which cruise and ballistic missiles have coincided over kyiv. Then the swarms of Shahed have appeared. And already early in the morning, Russia closed its concert of destruction with a new launch of cruise and ballistic missiles.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces also struck a blow early Tuesday by firing some of the best weapons in its Ukrainian-produced arsenal, Bar jet drones and the Neptun cruise missile, at a military aircraft repair base and drone factory in the southern Russian city of Taganrog.
Russian skepticism
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, stated this Tuesday that Moscow is waiting for the final version of the proposal that Washington, Ukraine and their European allies have supposedly agreed upon. Lavrov has admitted that the modifications to the document, according to information collected in the media, “would mean a totally different situation.” “But I repeat, no one has conveyed anything to us at an official level,” added the head of Russian diplomacy.
Lavrov has said that much of the content of the initial 28-point document was close to the theses that Putin and Trump agreed upon last August at the Alaska summit. “Since then there has been a pause [en las negociaciones] and now we find this document. “It must be clarified,” Lavrov added. For Russia, it is an essential condition, even before accepting a ceasefire, that Ukraine renounce the sovereignty of the occupied territories, especially the region of Donbas and Crimea, and that it renounce being part of NATO.
