““The siren is sounding – we are going to shelter. When there is no siren – we work and serve. There is no other way in war,” he said in his video address”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“When there is no air alert, the state, industries, embassies – everyone should work equally. And to perceive information, in particular, from intelligence precisely as information, and not as permission for a day off. This applies to everyone – from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and other structures and branches of government to administrative bodies in regions and communities. The siren sounds – we go to shelter. When there is no siren – we work and serve. There is no other way in war,” he said in his video message.
Zelensky noted that we should be aware that Putin will continue to intimidate us.
“He built all his power on this. It is important to be able to react correctly and do everything so that this war returns home, to Russia, and so that they feel what war is,” he added.
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 Office of the President of Ukraine, on the other hand, said that on November 22 it was working as usual.
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.
Before that, on November 20, the US Embassy in Ukraine reported 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, no such launches were reported.