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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Blinken Says Putin’s Attacks on Ukraine Energy Grid Will Not Divide Kyiv’s Allies

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference at the end of the NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting held at Parliament Palace in Bucharest, Romania, 30 November 2022. (EPA)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that Vladimir Putin had focused his "fire and ire" on Ukraine's civilian population and warned that Russia's recent strategy of targeting vital infrastructure would fail to divide Ukraine's supporters. 

"Heat, water, electricity...these are President Putin's new targets. He's hitting them hard. This brutalization of Ukraine's people is barbaric," Blinken told a news conference in Bucharest following a two-day NATO summit. 

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