London warns: – “Putin planning missile strikes at the turn of the year”

British military experts estimate that Russian missile strikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure could intensify during the course of the year. This is according to the daily intelligence update from the Ministry of Defense in London on the war in Ukraine on Saturday.

According to this data, the beatings have so far been carried out at intervals of seven to ten days. “Russia will almost certainly continue this pattern to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses,” the statement said.

But there is “a realistic possibility” that Russia will strike again in the coming days “to break the morale of the Ukrainian people over the New Year period,” it said.

Meanwhile, Kiev’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Resnikov warned with a video in Russian of a new Kremlin mobilization early this year. There is a choice between avoiding military service or dying in Ukraine or becoming a “cripple,” Resnikov said in the YouTube video.

Kiev warns Russians: Putin closes borders
Hundreds of thousands of Russians fled the country last fall to avoid the partial mobilization ordered by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.

Putin recently said that no new mobilization was needed. “I’m sure you still have a week to make a choice,” Resnikov now claimed. Then the borders would close so that no one can leave the country.

“Be aware that the Kremlin has lost the war”
The New Year’s celebration is a good opportunity to reflect and realize that the Kremlin has lost the war, the Ukrainian minister said. There is nothing worth fighting for. In his New Year’s speech, the minister listed the number of Russian defeats this year. He mentioned, for example, the sinking of the flagship Moskva of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the explosions at military airfields in the Russian hinterland.

Russia has already lost more than 100,000 soldiers in this war, Resnikov said. “If that was the plan, only Russia’s enemies could have created it that way,” he said, also referring to the loss of Moscow’s image in the world.

“We defend our earth”
The minister accused the leadership in Moscow of constantly planning new waves of mobilization in order not to admit defeat in Ukraine, to stay in power and not to take responsibility for the many war crimes. Reznikov said that he spoke not only as a minister, but also as a lawyer. “The longer the war lasts, the more serious the consequences will be for ordinary people, for ordinary Russians,” he said. Generations in Russia should pay for the damage done. But Ukraine is not giving up. “We defend our Earth.”