Klimaliste Baden-Württemberg

Last night, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck an airfield in the Voronezh region. Four Su-34 aircraft were destroyed and two more Su-34s were hit. The Russians used them to terrorize our people. These very warplanes were ready to launch new attacks on Ukraine and were loaded with aerial bombs. Our Long Neptune missile was used to strike the target. I thank the warriors of the Ukrainian Navy for their precision! Our long-range sanctions also reached a site in the Oryol region used to store and launch attack drones. A target was also hit in the Black Sea. These are our justified responses to all of Russia’s terror against Ukraine. Russia is dragging out the war, so our long-range operations will continue.

Since last night, our emergency services have been working at the sites of Russian attacks. In Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, a Russian guided aerial bomb strike caused one section of a ten-story apartment building to collapse from the first through the sixth floor. One person was killed and 16 others were injured. In the settlement of Stepanivka, Sumy region, two people, including a child, were killed when a “shahed” struck a private home. My condolences to their families and loved ones. In Smila, Cherkasy region, a Russian drone struck a nine-story apartment building: fires broke out on several floors, and five people were injured. The Kherson, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, and Chernihiv regions also came under attack overnight. There are injured people in the regions, including children. Apartment buildings, private homes, and infrastructure facilities were damaged. Everyone injured is receiving the necessary medical care. Every day, Russia uses about 220 guided aerial bombs against our frontline communities, which the aggressor’s defense industry continues to produce and modify despite sanctions. Pressure is needed on every supply chain for foreign components and every enterprise working to enable strikes against lives. Russian missiles, bombs, and drones can be stopped not in our skies, but at the production stage. I thank everyone whose additional sanctions measures are helping make this possible.

For the first time in its history, Russia cannot wage war without reinforcements from North Korea. It is now preparing to deploy an additional North Korean contingent on its territory. It has also received additional ballistic missiles from North Korea. Everyone around the world must understand what this means. This is not only about the lives of people in Ukraine, and not only about the threats we face. North Korea’s ballistic missiles and other weapons are being improved through its collaboration with Russia. The more North Korean strikes there are here in Ukraine, in Europe, the more their missiles and soldiers are used, the more they correct their shortcomings and blind spots, the greater the danger will later be for Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and other countries in the region. That is why, when we speak about the need for joint action, for coordination and mutual support, when we speak about the need to help us strengthen our air defense, we are also, in fact, speaking about taking away North Korea’s appetite and any interest in coming here – to our land and into our skies – with its weapons in order to learn how to wage war. Everyone across the globe who respects human life must stand together in taking action to protect people. From the evening address.