The key facts

  • Zelensky warned that Russia is preparing a new large-scale attack targeting energy and logistics
  • According to him, Moscow expects the US midterm elections to divert attention from Ukraine
  • Zelensky said a new strike tactic is being used — targeting not only generation, but also grids and distribution networks

Zelensky's warning

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his Monday evening address that Russia is preparing a new large-scale attack on Ukraine, with energy infrastructure and logistics, according to him, set to be the main targets. Anadolu reports this.

Counting on the US elections and a shortage of Patriots

According to Zelensky, Moscow apparently expects that the US midterm elections will divert global attention from the situation in Ukraine, including air defense problems and the shortage of missiles for Patriot systems. He called on the international community to send a clear signal to Russia that its attacks will achieve nothing, and that oil revenues will remain under pressure as long as the war continues. «We must not play games with Russia's oil and gas revenues. We must put such pressure on Russia that it has no choice left but to end this war,» Anadolu quotes him as saying. «The United States can do this. The world can do this.»

New tactics and a promise of retaliation

Zelensky also said that Russia has adopted a «new tactic»: strikes are aimed not only at electricity generation facilities, but also at power grids and distribution networks. He called Ukraine's retaliatory strikes justified, said they have a «tangible impact» and hit their targets, and stressed: «We will certainly respond to the attack that Russia is preparing now.» According to Anadolu, Russia has not reacted to Zelensky's recent statements.