Russia is escalating its war against Ukraine, shelling critical infrastructure to leave millions of Ukrainians without power.

This was stated by Linda Thomas Greenfield, the permanent representative of the United States to this organization, during a meeting of the UN Security Council, reports

Ukrinform

.

She noted that the Russian dictator Putin is trying to turn the winter cold into a weapon and make the entire Ukrainian people suffer.

Greenfield noted that such tactics are inhumane and that the Kremlin deliberately uses them because it cannot defeat Ukraine on the battlefield.

She noted that the Russian Federation is resorting to attacks, the scale of which led to power outages even outside the borders of Ukraine.

Also, these attacks create serious problems at nuclear facilities in Ukraine.

The representative of the USA called to strongly condemn such actions of Russia and to create a mechanism of responsibility.

"We must do everything possible to support the people of Ukraine," said the permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations.

It will be recalled that earlier US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stated that Russia is conducting constant attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure

to keep the population of Ukraine in the dark and cold

.

We also informed that the President of Ukraine 

spoke at an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council

.

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