Ukraine parliament cancels session over threat of Russian attack

Vladimir Putinpresident

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

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

We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against the military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities,

Putin said

Jan Lipavskýczech Foreign Minister

I am interested in how the Ukrainians are coping with the bombings, how Czech projects are working on the ground and how to better target international aid in the coming months. I will discuss all of this here,

Lipavský wrote

These weapons are used to destroy people, not to destroy objects,

said Artiukh, according to Suspilne

Serhii Nykyforovspokesperson

The President's Office is working as usual in compliance with standard security measures: if an air-raid warning is issued, we will proceed to shelters."

Quote from Nykyforov

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”.

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