Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Russian forces resumed large-scale attacks on Ukraine overnight, launching 450 drones and more than 60 missiles against energy and residential targets in cities across the country including Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipro and Odesa, amid extreme winter conditions.
In a post on X, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of using a pause in strikes requested by U.S. President Donald Trump to stockpile weapons to wait for temperatures to drop to their lowest of the winter to launch fresh "genocidal attacks against the Ukrainian people."
"Neither anticipated diplomatic efforts in Abu Dhabi this week nor his promises to the United States kept him from continuing terror against ordinary people in the harshest winter," wrote Sybiha who called for the world to help strengthen Ukraine's air defenses and energy resilience and cut Russia's war machine off from energy revenues and western technology.
"Isolate the Russian regime. Stop and confiscate Russia's illegal oil tankers," he urged.
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