Ukraine parliament cancels session over threat of Russian attack

We believe that we have the right to use our weapons against military facilities of the countries that allow to use their weapons against our facilities,

he added

Vladimir Putinrussian President

In response to the use of American and British long-range weapons, on Nov. 21 of this year, the Russian armed forces launched a combined strike on one of the facilities of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine,

Putin said

There are signals of an increased risk of attacks on the government district in the coming days. Also in Kyiv and Ukraine in general,

MP Yevgenia Kravchuk told AFP

We have, in fact, derailed the entire 2025 campaign,

Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said of the Ukrainian army in a video published by the Russian defence ministry

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

The main message is that the reckless decisions and actions of Western countries, which produce missiles, supply them to Ukraine and subsequently take part in carrying out strikes on Russian territory, cannot remain without a reaction from the Russian side,

Peskov said

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

We are in no doubt that the current administration in Washington has had the chance to familiarise itself with this announcement and understand it,

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters

Mykyta PoturayevmP

There was also a recommendation to limit the work of all commercial offices and NGOs that remain in that perimeter, and local residents were warned of the increased threat,

MP Mykyta Poturaiev said

That said, Putin’s decision to inform Washington in advance of the test was clearly intended to avoid the it misinterpreting the launch and to mitigate the risks of immediate nuclear escalation,

said Acton

Putin’s a bully. He’s going to continue to sabre-rattle from time to time,

Burns said

I take the launch as a ‘reminder’ to the United States that the risks of nuclear escalation remain present,

said James Acton, the co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Deploying this capability will neither change the course of the conflict nor deter Nato allies from supporting Ukraine,

Farah Dakhlallah said

Several massive explosions occurred in Sumy,

Artem Kobzar said on Telegram

All of this [is] going in the wrong direction,

Stéphane Dujarric said as he called on all parties to de-escalate the conflict and “to protect civilians, not hit civilian targets or critical civilian infrastructure”.

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

The Russian side has clearly demonstrated its capabilities,

Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, said on Friday

The sirens ultimately ended, but there was still a rush to the basements and to the concrete parking lots because it just creates a tremendous amount of fear. And that's what the Russians wanted, fear among those who are living and surviving."

MacCarley said

You could say that Russia shot first at Dnipro as a statement suggesting that if Ukraine does not back away from the use of, let's say, the newly provided ATACMS [longer-range American missiles] from the U.S. and the Storm Shadows from Britain, that Russia will use the same longer-range intercontinental ballistic missile and hit Kyiv."

The retired U.S. general added

From a clearance perspective, de-miners have to approach any type of explosive object with the knowledge that it may explode,

Wareham told Agence France-Presse,

Within two weeks, if they have not been detonated, they become inert,

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters

Lloyd AustinuS Defense Secretary

They don't lead with their mechanized forces anymore,

Austin told reporters while on a visit to Laos