floods Ukraine with drones and attacks daycare centers every time Trump announces that “Putin wants peace”

Donald Trump has come to say that Vladimir Putin wants to negotiate peace in Ukraine, but the data shows otherwise. Russia has doubled its attacks on Ukrainian soil since the Republican president took office last January. Every time the White House tenant has highlighted Putin’s interest in reaching a compromise to resolve the conflict, the Russian president has returned it by escalating hostilities.

An example of this is what happened early Wednesday morning, when Russia attacked the regions of Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odessa and Kharkiv with drones and missiles. At least six people died. Among the fatalities are a six-month-old baby, a 12-year-old girl and a woman.

The attack in Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city, affected a kindergarten located in the Kholodnohirsky district, according to the city’s mayor, Igor Tejerov. Fifty children had to be evacuated in the subsequent fire.

According to data from the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched a whopping 405 drones and 28 missiles, most of them aimed at its energy infrastructures. The Army celebrated having shot down more than half of the Russian missiles and 333 drones.

The Minister of Energy, Svitlana Hrynchukdenounced Russia’s methodical campaign to burst its energy system. The DTEK company warned that blackouts would occur in most regions. The state energy company Ukrenergo regrets that the most serious situation is experienced in Sumy and Chernigov.

“It is evident that Russia acts with increasing brazenness. These attacks are a slap in the face to all those who insist on a peaceful resolution,” he denounced. Volodímir Zelenskiwhich again called for toughening the sanctions regime against Russia and long-range weapons to attack deep Russia. Weapons such as, for example, the Tomahawk missiles that Trump avoided selling him last Friday during his third visit to the White House.

The Ukrainian president also raised his chest over Tuesday’s airstrike against the Russian chemical plant in Bryansk, “a fundamental facility of the military-industrial complex of the aggressor state,” according to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, built about 100 kilometers from the border. In the operation, the Ukrainians confirmed having used British Storm Shadow long-range missiles.

The new wave of Russian attacks against Ukraine coincided with the suspension of the summit that Trump and Putin planned to hold in Budapest in two weeks. The White House announced this Tuesday that no meeting was planned “in the immediate future” and Trump confessed shortly after that he did not want to have a “useless meeting” with the Russian president, that he did not want to “waste time”, as happened in August at the Alaska summit.

“No one wants to waste time: neither President Trump nor President Putin,” the Kremlin spokesman responded on Wednesday morning. Dmitri Peskov. But the Ukrainians believe that yes, they believe that Putin is buying time to continue attacking their country without Trump deciding to retaliate.

The tenant of the White House proposes freezing the conflict on the current front lines. Let the truce come into effect immediately to begin negotiations. The Russian president, however, rejects the offer. It seeks to control Donbas, which includes the eastern regions of Lugansk and Donetsk.

“Ukraine has already accepted the American ceasefire proposal,” Zelensky’s chief of staff recalled this Wednesday. Andriy Yermak. “Moscow, however, is doing everything it can to keep up the killing.”

The Kremlin says that the summit planned in the Hungarian capital is still on, but that first it is necessary to define the framework of the negotiations. And that takes time. He shows his willingness to dialogue, but without giving up his maximalist stance.