Russian strikes left at least two dead in Sumy, in northeastern Ukraine, local authorities announced Friday, November 22, the day after a day of extreme tensions marked by the shooting by Russia of a new ballistic missile. This town near the Russian border was hit by “several massive explosions”according to Mayor Artem Kobzar on Telegram. Follow our live stream.
Risk of escalation. Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Thursday that in response to Western missile strikes on his territory, Russia fired at Ukraine with a new type of hypersonic ballistic missile called “Orechnik”, which was in its “nuclearized configuration”. With the authorization of American missile strikes on Russian territory, “the conflict provoked by the West in Ukraine has taken on the elements of a [conflit] of a global nature”warned the Russian president.
“Determination of allies.” Russia’s use of this new medium-range ballistic missile against Ukraine “will neither change the course of the conflict nor the determination of NATO allies to support Ukraine”said a spokesperson for the Atlantic Alliance on Thursday. “This is another example of Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian cities. Russia seeks to terrorize the civilian population in Ukraine and intimidate those who support it.” the country, Farah Dakhlallah said in a statement.
“Emergency measures.” The president of Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country allied with Russia, ordered Friday to “take urgent measures” to protect the civil and military infrastructure of his country due to the“climbing in Ukraine”.
