As Ukraine celebrated its 31 years of independence yesterday, Russia, without mercy, attacked the country with ferocity by hitting a railway station.
To spoil the party, Moscow launched a missile attack on a railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Meanwhile Washington has circulated the news that Moscow is preparing farce referendums in all occupied Ukrainian areas.
"We will fight until the end, without any compromise"President Volodymyr Zelensky told his nation. Unanimous support that Zelensky received from Western leaders while Boris Johnson flew to Kiev to personally witness the closeness and support of the British people.
Zelensky then assured that "Ukraine is the whole of Ukraine which includes all 25 regions, without concessions or compromises. It doesn't matter what army you have, what matters is our land and we will fight for it until the end ”.
Renewed support was therefore guaranteed by Joe Biden a Emmanuel Macron e Olaf Scholz, for Italy by Sergio Mattarella and Mario Draghi (the head of state defined Kiev's "legitimate resistance" to "brutal Russian aggression"). Boris Johnson he went further, visiting his colleague wearing a camouflage. The resigning British premier, the only leader to fly to Ukraine three times since the war, has assured that those who succeed him in Downing Street will also remain alongside Kiev. "I believe that Ukraine can win and that it will win ", he said, pledging additional $ 56 million military aid, which includes state-of-the-art drones and missile launching systems.
The United States, on the other hand, has allocated a new package of almost 3 billion dollars. "The largest tranche of security assistance provided so far "Biden said.
Therefore, no attacks were recorded in the capital Kiev even if the alarm sirens sounded several times. Moscow in the face of some internal quarrel after the killing of the daughter of the philosopher Dugin is trying to change the narrative and with the words of the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, is getting the message across that "The offensive was deliberately slowed down to avoid casualties" among the population, conducting "precision" attacks on "military infrastructure".
In the evening Zelensky, as proof that the Russians are bombarding, instead, indiscriminately, reported the massacre at Chaplyne station, in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast where at least 15 people were killed while 50 were injured (still provisional toll).
The south and the Donbass, from Kharkiv and Dnipro, to Zaporizhzhia are in the sights of Moscow. Local Ukrainian authorities reported that the infrastructure of the city hosting the nuclear power plant was hit and an employee of the plant was reportedly killed by a mortar shell while aboard a taxi. The tense situation around the largest power plant in Europe was among the issues at the center of a meeting of the UN Security Council.
Zelensky in his remote speech said that the enemy's raids on Zaporizhzhia "put Europe under the threat of radiation and Moscow must put an end" to nuclear blackmail. The Russian ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, overturned the accusation, arguing that some attacks were carried out with American weapons. The hopes at this point are more than ever linked to a short-term IAEA inspection, after Putin's green light.
Liz Truss: "if I were prime minister ready to launch a nuclear attack"
The current British Foreign Minister Liz Truss, speaking in Birmingham at a party rally, said she would be ready to order a nuclear attack. The moderator of the event, John Pienaar in front of the delegates asked Truss: “One of the first things that will happen when and if you become premier, will be to take care of the last available military resources by writing the letters for the commanders of our submarines. It is your orders to the commanders who can initiate the launch of the atomic bombs. It would be global annihilation. How would you feel to give this order? ».
Truss repeated without delay: "I think it is an important task for the prime minister and I am ready to do it. I'm ready to do it ”.
When a new prime minister takes office in Downing Street, he writes a letter in a sealed envelope, which is then delivered to the commanders of the 4 submarines. And the so-called "last resort letter", A message intended to be opened and read by the commander of the unit in the event that the submarine, in the middle of the sea, is no longer able to contact the homeland in the event of war, or because communications have become impossible or because the British government and the military hierarchies were annihilated by an enemy attack. This letter always remains secret and may contain, at the discretion of each Prime Minister, instructions of any kind. When the premier leaves office, these letters are destroyed without being opened and replaced by letters from his successor.
The British Prime Minister manages an atomic arsenal entrusted to submarines in the open sea. There are 225 nuclear warheads, which are expected to increase to 260 in the coming years. For twenty years, the British have used only 4 Vanguard-class missile submarines as the only carriers of their nuclear weapons, given that the aviation, the famous Royal Air Force , decommissioned its last nuclear launchable aircraft in 1998. Vanguard submarines are 16.000-ton behemoths, 150 meters long. Each of them carries 16 Trident D-5 missiles with a range of 12.000 km. And each missile carries up to 8 warheads.