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Zelenskyy Vows Mirror Retaliation Over Winter Energy Strikes
(MENAFN) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a pointed warning to Moscow on Friday: any Russian assault on Ukraine's power grid this winter will be answered in kind. Writing on the US social media platform X, he said, "If they cause blackouts for us, we will try to respond in fitting fashion."
Zelenskyy reiterated that a negotiated settlement remains Kyiv's preferred outcome, pushing for movement toward a three-way summit bringing together Ukraine, Russia and the United States. He also called for an energy-sector ceasefire, the reopening of Black Sea shipping lanes, and the continuation of prisoner and civilian exchanges — including the return of children currently held in Russia.
Beyond the battlefield, Zelenskyy cautioned that a drawn-out war carries economic consequences well beyond Ukraine's borders, warning that continued disruption to Black Sea grain exports could deepen food insecurity in vulnerable nations and destabilize global agricultural trade routes in a manner he likened to a chokepoint crisis in the agricultural sector — comparable, he suggested, to tensions at the Strait of Hormuz, only for crops rather than oil. He stressed the burden of resolving that threat shouldn't fall on Ukraine alone.
He also pressed the US Congress to advance sanctions legislation associated with the late Senator Lindsey Graham and called on President Donald Trump's administration to move faster. "Sanctions need to be imposed now," Zelenskyy said, describing sanctions as Washington's leverage to choke off Russia's war financing. He added a rare note of personal frustration: "And honestly, sometimes I don't understand why decisions can't be made quickly."
Zelenskyy reiterated that a negotiated settlement remains Kyiv's preferred outcome, pushing for movement toward a three-way summit bringing together Ukraine, Russia and the United States. He also called for an energy-sector ceasefire, the reopening of Black Sea shipping lanes, and the continuation of prisoner and civilian exchanges — including the return of children currently held in Russia.
Beyond the battlefield, Zelenskyy cautioned that a drawn-out war carries economic consequences well beyond Ukraine's borders, warning that continued disruption to Black Sea grain exports could deepen food insecurity in vulnerable nations and destabilize global agricultural trade routes in a manner he likened to a chokepoint crisis in the agricultural sector — comparable, he suggested, to tensions at the Strait of Hormuz, only for crops rather than oil. He stressed the burden of resolving that threat shouldn't fall on Ukraine alone.
He also pressed the US Congress to advance sanctions legislation associated with the late Senator Lindsey Graham and called on President Donald Trump's administration to move faster. "Sanctions need to be imposed now," Zelenskyy said, describing sanctions as Washington's leverage to choke off Russia's war financing. He added a rare note of personal frustration: "And honestly, sometimes I don't understand why decisions can't be made quickly."
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