Zelensky Says Trump Waiving Sanctions 'Rewards' Putin, Warns Moscow Wants 'Blackout' in Ukraine
- On Saturday, Oct. 17, President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that Russian forces launched one of their largest coordinated assaults, striking more than 15 critical electricity generation and transmission facilities across Ukraine.
- Between Friday evening and Saturday morning, Russian forces deployed more than 320 strike drones and missiles, including a mix of Shahed munitions and cruise weapons, against Ukraine's civil power networks.
- Severe disruptions were recorded in northwestern and central centers including Lutsk, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Shepetivka, Slavuta, and Netishyn, while additional kinetic strikes damaged energy installations in the Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
- Via executive order on Friday, President Donald Trump waived the Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, removing mandatory 500 percent tariffs and 100 percent duties just 48 hours before they took effect.
- Zelensky argued that easing sanctions in America encourages Putin to prolong the war, while emergency restoration crews are mobilizing nationwide to prevent a total blackout before winter.
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Zelensky accused Donald Trump of easing the sanctions pressure on Russia, and the reason was the refusal of the United States President's Administration to impose the new serious restrictions provided for by the Lindsay Graham Act* (recognized an extremist in the Russian Federation) known as the "Adian Sanctions Act".
Ukraine hoped that new US sanctions would increase the pressure on Russia to end the war of aggression. Now head of state Selenskyj is disappointed by a decision of the US president.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this Saturday that the suspension of sanctions, decreed by the US leader, rewards and encourages Moscow's policy against Kiev.
The Head of State complained about the "American sanctions blackout", which only encourages Vladimir Putin to continue to strike Ukraine.
President Vladimir Zelensky stated that the Russian army was trying to make a blackout in Ukraine, so it was constantly attacking energy installations.
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