“As Serhii Nikiforov reported in a commentary on Radio Liberty, the OP works “with the observance of standard security measures: the alarm will sound – we will be in shelters””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
As Nikiforov said in a commentary to Radio Liberty, the OP works “with the observance of standard security measures: the alarm will sound – we will be in shelters.”
Earlier, sources in the parliament, who wished to remain anonymous, told Radio Liberty that people’s deputies of Ukraine are not recommended to come to the government quarter on November 22, and the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, which was supposed to take place on that day, was canceled.
This was also reported by individual people’s deputies: Taras Batenko and Oleksiy Goncharenko.
The official leadership of the parliament did not comment on these reports.
The information appeared after the evening of November 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the “successful test in combat conditions” of the newest medium-range Oreshnik 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. He also did not rule out new such strikes.
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. Later, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, said that Russia had used a new missile, the characteristics of which are similar to an intercontinental ballistic weapon. According to him, examinations are ongoing.
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 test site in the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation. On November 20, no such launches were reported.