Russia deliberately waited for January cold to strike Ukrainian energy infrastructure, UN envoy says
Andrii Melnyk, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (photo: Vitalii Nosach / RBC-Ukraine)
Russia repeatedly finds ways to prove that there are no limits to its criminal intentions. The enemy deliberately waited until January and then began attacking Ukraine’s infrastructure to leave millions of people facing terrifying freezing conditions, Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Andrii Melnyk said during an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council convened in response to recent Russian strikes on Ukraine.
"Russia deliberately waited until the beginning of January, when temperatures in Ukraine dropped to minus 15 degrees Celsius, to carry out a series of the most destructive drone and missile strikes on our energy infrastructure, as a result of which millions of citizens found themselves in conditions of severe frost," Melnyk said.
He also added that every time the international community believes Russia has reached the "limit of lies and barbarism," Moscow once again surpasses itself.
"It finds a way to sink even lower, proving that there are no limits to its criminal intentions," the Ukrainian Permanent Representative to the United Nations concluded.
On January 12, the United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting in connection with Russia's massive attacks on Ukraine and their consequences.
