Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of carrying out targeted terror against the Ukrainian people following heavy airstrikes over the past week.
Zelensky posted on social media on Sunday that the Russian military used about 1,100 drones, 890 guided bombs and 50 rockets and cruise missiles against Ukraine in the past week, including the medium-range ballistic missile “Oleshnik”.
Zelensky said the weapons were “aimed at targets that have no military significance: energy facilities and residential buildings.”
Zelensky believes Moscow is deliberately waiting for cold weather to make life as difficult as possible for ordinary Ukrainians. “This is a deliberate and cynical act of terror carried out by Russia against its people,” he wrote.
He illustrated his remarks with video footage of drones causing damage to civilian objects in Kiev and surrounding areas, as well as in the Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Odessa, Zaporozhye and Chernihiv regions. The image of the Oreshnik missile strike on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv is not shown.
The Kremlin has described the ongoing bombing of Ukraine as strikes aimed exclusively at military targets, although damage to power plants affected civilians.
Moscow recently leveled terror accusations against Kiev over an alleged drone attack on a residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Zelensky strongly denied the claim, and the CIA, the U.S. foreign intelligence agency, concluded that Ukraine did not target Putin or one of his residences, according to U.S. media reports.
Putin ordered the war against Ukraine nearly four years ago.
