KYIV – Last week, immediately after what U.S. President Donald Trump called a “good” meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Davos, Switzerland, Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs advised all of the country’s citizens to stock up on water and food, prepare an emergency bag with documents, warm clothes, a first-aid kit and keep cash on hand. They also recommended checking fuel supplies and being prepared for heightened security measures.
This advisory came with an alarming, but not surprising, warning: “A new massive attack on Kyiv is likely by the end of the week,” the ministry warned. “Russia’s main goal at present is to make the capital uninhabitable through blackouts and a lack of heat. The strike may be carried out using strategic aviation, drones, ballistic missiles and the Oreshnik missile system.”
What followed over the weekend, as this newspaper reported — even as the U.S.-brokered “peace” talks got under way in Abu Dhabi — was the “bombardment of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and its second-largest city Kharkiv by hundreds of Russian drones and missiles.” This prompted Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha to accuse Russia of acting “cynically.” This “barbaric attack once again proves that Putin’s place is not at (U.S. President Donald Trump’s) Board of Peace, but in the dock of the special tribunal. His missiles hit not only our people, but ?also the negotiation table.”
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