Preliminary
The old saying that "disaster comes from the mouth" is true when applied to Russia and Ukraine recently.
As soon as Zelensky finished speaking harsh words about "attacking Russian facilities", on October 10, the Russian army used 450 drones and 30 missiles to bomb and paralyze 14 energy facilities in Uzbekistan, directly plunging the people into "no water or electricity" dilemma.
Looking at the coming of the cold winter, he urgently sent the prime minister to the United States to seek help, can this trip come to "save the grain"?
Energy facilities were blown into a sieve
The goal of this round of Russian air strikes is too clear, which is to target Ukraine's energy facilities and launch ruthless attacks.
In the capital Kiev, the left bank of the Dnipro River has become a disaster zone, not only households are out of power, even the hospital's spare generators can not last long.
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It is not over, the Zaporozhye hydroelectric power plant, the Kremlinchuk hydroelectric power plant, the Dnipro hydroelectric power plant, plus the Kremlinchuk hydroelectric power plant, 14 key energy facilities across Ukraine, collectively "left flat" on October 10.
For the people, this energy crisis is not a number in the news, it is a really bad day.
In the past, the electricity was stopped for a few hours every day at most, and it was over if I endured it; Later, once in a while, we stopped for a whole day, and everyone began to stock up on candles and dry food.
Now well, some places directly linked to a few days without electricity, mobile phone charging have to run away to find the "extended point", which is the day, is simply the "extreme survival challenge".
The price of Zelensky's "mouth gun"
In fact, the Russian military rarely "dead hands" on Ukrainian energy facilities, most of the time only looking at military targets to fight, this sudden change of strategy, with Zelensky's a month's several "hard words" can not separate, even see obvious "revenge", after all, Zelensky's side just finished, the next day or not a few days, Ukraine was attacked by air.
In late September, Zelensky went to New York to host the United Nations General Assembly, not only got Trump several verbal support, but also revealed the news that he could get a long-range weapon such as the "strike ax".
On September 26, he directly said in New York that "senior officials in Moscow should quickly familiarize themselves with the local bomb shelters." As soon as he finished speaking, on September 27, Kiev suffered the largest air strike since the war.
On October 1, he also publicly said "to blow up all Russian energy facilities, so that the Russians also taste the winter of the bones," and on October 2 and 3, Ukraine's energy facilities were destroyed by another round of airstrikes.
On October 9th, it was more clearly stated that "Trump supports him in attacking Russia's energy facilities and weapons factories." Before everyone could react, there was a blackout across the country on October 10th.
In this cycle of "talking big and being attacked by air strikes", the people in Ukraine were the last ones to suffer. Seeing that energy facilities were bombed again and again, and the people could not live on, Zelensky didn't wait long before making a plan to "go to the United States urgently." This was also forced into a corner.
High-level delegation to the United States, three major requests can be desired?
This time the delegation to the United States is not low, the Ukrainian prime minister, the head of the office of the president, the president's sanctions affairs representative, together three people, almost represent the Ukrainian government's core speech in the economy, diplomacy, and sanctions.
They go here, and the main purpose is to say three things, the first is to "get money."
The West has frozen a lot of Russia’s overseas assets over the years, and Ukraine wants the United States to take the lead, taking some of those assets out, either to pay for defense spending or to repair the bombed energy facilities.
After all, the Ukrainian government now spends a lot of money every day just to repair power plants and buy natural gas, and its finances are already too tight to hold back.
The second is “weapons,” what Ukraine now lacks is air defense capabilities, so large in the country, that the existing “patriotic” “NASAMS” systems can not be covered, the Russian military drones and missiles can always find the air.
This time they want the United States to give more air defense weapons, by the way, to upgrade intelligence cooperation, which is equivalent to both "shield" and "radar".
The third is "Gas", winter is coming, Ukraine because of the explosion of energy facilities, the gas supply gap is growing, there is no way but to increase imports by one-third.
But buying on their own is not enough, they want the United States to help coordinate the supply of natural gas in Europe, then fight for some funding subsidies, don't wait for the winter to come, after all, can never let the people wrapped in the sweaters for the winter.
Ukraine still has two major problems
But this call for help is not "stable and profitable", but the United States has been cooperating militarily, but the United States has not resumed its economic aid to Ukraine so far.
Instead, European allies carried a lot of pressure, before the United States gave Ukraine weapons, many of them were bought by Europe, so this delegation went to the United States, can you get the support of real gold and silver, you have to see how the two sides will talk.
In addition to going to the United States for help, Ukraine has two more urgent challenges. One is "winter energy pressure". Although natural gas imports have increased by nearly one-third, the bombed energy facilities cannot be repaired quickly.
Another is the “G7 attitude,” where the G7 finance ministers will meet next week to discuss whether to increase sanctions on Russia’s key areas of energy, finance and military production, which is important for Ukraine.
If the G7 can increase sanctions, Russia's economy and military supplies will be affected, and Ukraine's energy facilities may be reduced. However, if there is disagreement within the G7 and the sanctions are not strong enough, the pressure on Ukraine will only increase.
conclusion
Now that the Russia-Ukraine war has been going on for so long, Zelensky sent a delegation to the United States to ask for help while trying to persuade allies to increase sanctions against Russia, but Russia's attitude is also very clear: as long as Ukraine is still looking for long-range weapons, Putin will not stop saying hard words about "attacking Russian facilities".
For Ukraine, this visit to the United States may not be the "last grain", but it is indeed a little hope in the cold winter, only how much benefit this request will eventually get, this winter Ukraine can survive, now not to say.
But what is certain is that every negotiation and every aid is affecting the lives of the Ukrainian people, and it is also slowly hooking up where this war will go in the future. I hope this winter, the Ukrainian people will suffer less. Bar.