O Itamaraty JAMAIS soltou uma nota lamentando a perda de vidas humanas em decorrência dos ataques terroristas da Rússia.
POR QUE ISTO?
Provavelmente não terei respostas, nem do Itamaraty, nem da Presidência.
Não sei como classificar essa abjeção moral.
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
From Foreign Policy, Dec 29, 2023:
At least 30 people were killed and more than 160 people injured in Ukraine on Friday in what Kyiv called the biggest missile bombardment since Russia began its all-out invasion of the country in February 2022. Russia struck the cities of Kyiv, Odessa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Lviv using “nearly every type of weapon in its arsenal” and hit homes and a maternity hospital, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC.
Ukraine’s air defenses were overwhelmed by the attacks, and an Air Force spokesperson said Kyiv had never seen so many types of missiles used at once. The United Nations humanitarian envoy for Ukraine, Denise Brown, said the attacks constituted “another unacceptable example of the horrifying reality” that Ukrainians face. U.S. President Joe Biden also condemned the attacks, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin “must be stopped.”
“The enemy is attacking our border territories, including in the west,” Yuriy Ihnat, spokesperson for Ukraine’s Air Force, said on national television. “This is another signal for our partners to strengthen the Ukrainian air defense.” Additional U.S. lethal and economic aid to Ukraine is still tied up in Congress. Republicans are demanding a deal on tougher U.S.-Mexico border security, including putting tougher asylum claims in place and boosting border enforcement, in exchange for aid to Ukraine.
Russia admitted earlier this week that Ukraine damaged one of this Black Sea warships. After Friday’s bombardment, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson simply said Moscow had hit “all the designated military targets.” But it wasn’t only Ukrainian air space that was involved: Poland has said that it believes a Russian missile entered Polish airspace for nearly three minutes before entering Ukraine. Polish President Andrzej Duda called an emergency security meeting; he later said there was “no threat at the moment.”
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke with his Polish counterpart, Jacek Siewiera, on Friday to articulate “United States’ solidarity with Poland, our close NATO ally, as it deals with reports of a missile temporarily entering Polish airspace,” according to the White House. Sullivan also promised Poland technical assistance.
