{"id":28808,"date":"2022-11-29T04:17:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=28808"},"modified":"2022-11-29T04:17:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:17:47","slug":"nato-says-russia-using-winter-as-a-weapon-in-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=28808","title":{"rendered":"NATO says Russia using winter as a weapon in Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Al Jazeera: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine has prepared for more Russian attacks against energy and other critical infrastructure on Monday in what appears to be a weekly pattern, and warned of possible evacuations from the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estonia\u2019s foreign minister joined counterparts from six Baltic and Nordic nations \u2014 in the largest delegation to visit Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale war \u2014 to pledge electric generators, warm clothes and food. The goal is to help Ukrainians cope with their coldest months of need and keep their resolve high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRussia is weaponising civilian energy security, and it is truly shameful,\u201d Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said in Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned late Sunday that Russian troops \u201care preparing new strikes, and as long as they have missiles, they won\u2019t stop.\u201d He met Monday with senior government officials to discuss what actions to take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe upcoming week can be as hard as the one that passed,\u201d he predicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia has been carrying out massive missile bombardments<\/a> on Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure roughly weekly since early October, with each barrage having a greater effect than the last as damage accumulates and a frigid winter sets in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyiv says the attacks, which Russia acknowledges target Ukrainian infrastructure, are intended to harm civilians, making them a war crime<\/a>. Moscow denies its intent is to hurt civilians but said last week their suffering would not end unless Ukraine yielded to Russia\u2019s demands, without spelling them out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg insisted Russian President Vladimir Putin was intent on using frost, snow and ice to his advantage, not just on the battleground but against Ukrainian civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Al Jazeera: Ukraine has prepared for more Russian attacks against energy and other critical infrastructure on Monday in what appears to be a weekly pattern, and warned of possible evacuations from the capital. Estonia\u2019s foreign minister joined counterparts from six Baltic and Nordic nations \u2014 in the largest delegation to visit Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale war \u2014 to pledge electric generators, warm clothes and food. The goal is to help Ukrainians cope with their coldest months of need and keep their resolve high. \u201cRussia is weaponising civilian energy security, and it is truly shameful,\u201d Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28811,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28808\/revisions\/28811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}