Jan 11, 2026, 12:23 p.mJan 11, 2026, 12:23 p.m
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has accused Russia of targeted terror against the people of his country following heavy air strikes this week. The Russian military has used around 1,100 drones, 890 guided aerial bombs and 50 rockets and cruise missiles, including the Oreshnik medium-range missile, against Ukraine in the past week, he wrote on social networks. “On targets that have no military significance: energy systems and residential buildings.”
The Ukrainian president accuses the Kremlin of targeted terror against the population.Image: keystone
Moscow specifically waited for the frosty weather to make life as hard as possible for ordinary Ukrainians. “This is deliberate, cynical Russian terror against the people,” argued Zelensky. He illustrated his words with video clips of drone damage to civilian objects in Kiev and the surrounding area as well as in the Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Odessa, Zaporizhzhia and Chernihiv regions. There were no images from Lviv in western Ukraine, where the Oreshnik rocket hit.
The Kremlin presents the ongoing bombing of Ukraine as strikes against only military-relevant objects, even if the civilian population suffers from the destruction of power plants. Moscow recently made terrorism allegations against Kiev because Ukraine allegedly launched a drone attack on one of the residences of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin. Putin ordered war against Ukraine almost four years ago. (hkl/sda/dpa)