After the explosion of the Crimea Bridge, Russia quickly found out the truth and "finalized" it, which was defined as Ukraine's terrorist attack on Russian civil facilities. Subsequently, Russia launched a series of strikes on Ukraine.
According to the Russian government, Russia uses long-range missile to strike energy, military and communication facilities in Ukraine.
Zelensky responded to Russia's retaliation, saying that Russian drones and missiles hit multiple areas in Ukraine.
It is reported that the key area of Russia's strike this time is the Ukrainian capital Kiev . The Kiev power system has been paralyzed due to Russia's precise blow. In addition, more than a dozen other cities have also experienced supply failures in terms of electricity, Internet and water sources.
Because of this, Zelensky used this as an excuse to cut off the electricity supply in Europe.
According to Observer.com , Ukrainian Ministry of Energy suspended exports of electricity to Europe starting from the 11th of this month. Of course, Ukraine also knows that this move will exacerbate the European energy crisis, but Ukraine said that Ukraine must first ensure its own energy supply and ensure that it can survive this winter smoothly.
There is no doubt that the power outage in Ukraine in Europe is a heavy blow to Europe today.
At the beginning, Ukraine, which relies heavily on imports, experienced a shortage of natural gas after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but even though Ukraine was in a war situation, its electricity was still surplus.
Europe is also extremely dependent on imports of Russian natural gas. In order to reduce its dependence on Russian energy, Europe reached power and energy cooperation with Ukraine.
Zelensky agreed to export electricity to Europe, the exchange condition is that Europe must ensure the supply of natural gas to Ukraine.
Ukraine and Europe reached a power cooperation, killing two birds with one stone. It can not only obtain fiscal revenue to support the Ukrainian army's operations on the front line, but also use power to win over allies to fight against Russia.
But Europe is unable to protect itself in the face of the increasingly severe energy crisis, let alone guaranteeing natural gas supply to Ukraine; and because Europe has tasted the bitter fruit of sanctions against Russia, its determination to support Ukraine is no longer as firm as before.
So before Ukraine cut off power to Europe, it had already issued a warning to Europe, saying that due to a shortage of heating energy in Ukraine, it will cut off power to Europe.
Russia's attack on Ukrainian energy system just provided an opportunity for Zelensky to stop supplying electricity to Europe. Now Europe will be more difficult to be hit this winter.
Not only that, Ukraine also blamed Russia for the reason for the power outage in Europe. Ukraine's energy minister said that it is precisely because Ukraine provides electricity to Europe that gradually gets rid of its dependence on Russian energy, which has caused the consequences of Russia's crackdown on Ukrainian energy system. This is obviously to give Russia hatred.
It can be seen from this that Zelensky's purpose of stopping power to Europe is not just to ensure the supply of natural gas to Ukraine.
As we all know, the reason why Ukraine has been able to stand stalemate with Russia for so long is because Western countries have provided a lot of military aid, but Europe does not want to continue to aid Ukraine at present. Therefore, Zelensky's move not only vents his dissatisfaction, but also wants to threaten Europe to continue to provide military aid to it through electricity supply.
However, Zelensky's move may offend countries that support Ukraine, and then it will be afraid that Ukraine will become a victim of this conflict.
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