Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the leak incidents of the Russian Nord Stream gas pipeline took place in the exclusive economic zone of Denmark and Sweden, which is an area completely controlled by the CIA.
Commenting on the leak from the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, Zakharova pointed out yesterday, Wednesday, that US officials confirmed some time ago this year that Nord Stream 2 will never be put into operation. exploitation, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry demanded that US President Joe Biden answer the question of whether Washington carried out its threat to the pipelines on September 25 and 26.
She added: “Speaking of the accident site…there were claims that it was neutral waters and so on, but this is the exclusive economic zone of Denmark and Sweden,” referring to these NATO countries equipped with American-made weapons. , and explained that the area is controlled by US intelligence agencies.
396 children were killed.
In this regard, the Ukrainian authorities announced that since the beginning of the military operation in late February, Russian troops have killed 396 children.
The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said in a statement, according to the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform, that “the Russian military operation to date has resulted in the death of 396 children and the injury of 779 children.”
The prosecutor’s office indicated that these figures are not the final result of the dead and wounded, given the ongoing hostilities in a number of regions.
“About 2,500 educational institutions in Ukraine were damaged as a result of Russian bombing of civilian and educational facilities, of which 289 were completely destroyed,” the report says, explaining that the largest number of victims was recorded in the Donetsk region, then in the Kharkiv region. and then the capital Kyiv.
In the same context, Valentin Reznichenko, head of the regional military administration in the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine, said today that at least three people were killed, including a child, and five more were injured as a result of Russian bombing of the city.
Reznichenko added that Russian bombing had targeted residential areas of the city, noting that a 12-year-old girl was among the wounded.
He pointed out that as a result of the bombing, 60 houses and several high-rise buildings were damaged, and several houses were completely destroyed.
Eighth package of fines
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the eighth round of sanctions against Russia, and the commission chair said in a statement that Russia had taken its war against Ukraine to a new level last week.
The chairman of the commission said: The sanctions will include expanding the list of products that can no longer be exported to Russia, and the goal here is to deprive the Kremlin military complex of key technologies, for example, this includes products related to the aerospace industry or electronic components and specific chemicals. and lead to an export ban. This new strategy will weaken Russia’s economic base and its ability to modernize.
She explained that the union will impose an additional ban on the provision of European services to Russia and a ban on the work of EU citizens in the administrative bodies of Russian state-owned companies so that Russia cannot benefit from European knowledge and experience.