The meeting was canceled in the Council, deputies are advised not to be in the government quarter due to the “threat of shelling”

People’s deputies of Ukraine are not recommended to come to the government quarter on November 22, the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, which was supposed to take place that day, was canceled, sources in the parliament, who wished to remain anonymous, told RFE/RL.

According to the report, the deputies received messages warning about the threat of shelling of the government quarter.

On the evening of November 21, People’s Deputy of Ukraine Taras Batenko announced a warning about the threat of an attack on the Verkhovna Rada on the air of the “Great Lviv Speaks” project.

“We were informed that there is a threat of a missile attack on the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv in the coming days. Let’s see: whether it will happen or not, but Putin has raised the stakes as much as possible.
The meeting of the Verkhovna Rada scheduled for tomorrow is cancelled,” he said.

Deputy Oleksii Goncharenko also wrote in his telegram that the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada on November 22, where there was supposed to be an hour of questions to the government, will not take place. According to him, the next meeting is planned for December.

The official leadership of the parliament did not comment on these reports.

On the evening of November 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the “successful test in combat conditions” of the latest Oreshnik medium-range missile. According to him, the forces of the Russian Federation struck the Dnieper with this ballistic missile with non-nuclear hypersonic equipment.

Putin said that this was “a response to the aggressive actions of NATO countries towards Russia” – the permission of Ukraine to strike with Western missiles on the territory of the Russian Federation and such strikes in the Bryansk and Kursk regions.

“The question of the further deployment of medium- and shorter-range missiles will be decided by us depending on the actions of the United States and its satellites. Objects to be affected will be determined taking into account the threats to the Russian Federation. We believe that we have the right to use our weapons against the military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities,” he said.

The Russian leader also said that in the future, civilians will be informed about plans to use Oreshnik.

On the morning of November 21, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that Russian troops attacked the Dnipro with various types of missiles, including launching an intercontinental ballistic missile.

According to the local authorities, an industrial enterprise was damaged in Dnipro as a result of the strike, two fires also broke out in the city, and three people were injured.

On November 20, the US Embassy in Ukraine announced that it had received “specific information” about a possible significant Russian air attack on November 20. As a precaution, the embassy was closed. Subsequently, the diplomatic missions of Spain, Italy and Greece also announced the closure for visitors on November 20.

Against this background, social networks spread information about the possibility of launching an attack on Ukraine with the RS-26 “Rubezh” ballistic missile. The launches were supposed to be from a training ground in the Astrakhan region. On November 20, such launches were not reported.