Zelensky says Ukraine obtained documents showing Russia plans strikes on 'decision-making centers'
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 15 that Ukraine's Defense Intelligence obtained Russian documents listing nearly two dozen political centers and military command posts as targets for new missile and drone strikes. Satellite images attached to his statement, dated May 6, showed coordinates of the presidential office, residence, and underground facilities in central Kyiv. Zelensky vowed long-range sanctions against Russia and said Ukraine had taken the intelligence into account.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 15 that Ukraine's Defense Intelligence obtained Russian documents listing nearly two dozen political centers and military command posts as targets for new missile and drone strikes, which Moscow describes as "decision-making centers."
"Specialists from the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine obtained documents indicating that the Russians are preparing new missile and drone strikes against Ukraine, including, as they describe them, against 'decision-making centers,'" Zelensky said in a social media update. "Among these are nearly two dozen political centers and military command posts. Of course, we have taken this information into account," he added.
Satellite images attached to Zelensky's post, dated May 6, included coordinates of the Office of the President of Ukraine, the presidential residence, and underground protected facilities in central Kyiv. The images appeared to have been obtained by Ukrainian intelligence from Russian military offices.
Zelensky also announced work on what he described as "long-range sanctions" against Russia in response to recent attacks. "Ukraine will not leave without consequences any of the strikes that take the lives of our people," he wrote. The statement came a day after a Russian strike on Kyiv on May 14 killed 24 people, including three children, following the conclusion of a rescue operation at a destroyed residential building in the Darnytskyi district.
Addressing the Russian leadership directly, Zelensky said: "But it is worth emphasizing specifically for the Russian leadership that Ukraine is – after all – not Russia. And unlike the aggressor state, where there is a clear author of this war and a long-standing circle around him that sustains his detachment from reality, the source of Ukraine's defense is the readiness of the Ukrainian people to fight for their independence and for their own sovereign state."
Zelensky added: "Russia must end its war and negotiate a dignified peace, rather than searching for new ways to intimidate Ukraine."