Russia’s war against Ukraine – all developments

Baerbock said specifically: “We are witnessing in a brutal way that the Russian President is now using cold as a weapon of war – a brutal break not only with international law, but with our civilization.” The bombing of infrastructure means that families with young children have to live in sub-zero temperatures without electricity, water and heat.

A little later, the Foreign Minister added: “I could never have imagined that this brutal break in civilization would be carried out in this way in recent years. (…) If infrastructure is bombed in a targeted manner, then you wantonly accept that children, old people and families will freeze to death, that they will die of thirst, that they will starve.”