VLadimir Putin threatens Westerners. The Russian president spoke in an address to the nation this Thursday, November 21, where he assured that his country was “ready for all” scenarios in the conflict between it and kyiv and its allies. “We have always been ready, and we still are, to resolve all problems by peaceful means, but we are also ready to deal with any developments,” he said in this speech broadcast on Russian television . “If anyone still doubts it, it’s useless. There will always be an answer,” he warned.
Vladimir Putin also threatened the West, whom he did not exclude from striking, after British missiles were fired by kyiv on Russian soil for the first time. Moscow also claims that its territory was targeted by long-range American missiles. “We consider ourselves within our rights to use our weapons against the military installations of countries that authorize the use of their weapons against our installations. And in the event of an escalation of aggressive actions, we will respond equally strongly,” he warned.
“From the moment when [ces missiles ont été tirés sur la Russie]and as we have emphasized many times [au préalable]the conflict provoked by the West in Ukraine has taken on the elements of a [conflit] of a global nature,” underlined the Russian president, his tone firm. However, he claimed that the two Ukrainian attacks against military installations in the Russian regions of Bryansk and Kursk had “failed”.
“Orechnik”, the new Russian hypersonic missile
In response to these Western missile strikes, Vladimir Putin claimed that his forces had struck Ukraine on Thursday. A new type of medium-range hypersonic missile, called “Orechnik”, which was in its “nuclear-free configuration”, was used. This shot targeted “a site of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex,” he said. Ukraine reported earlier in the day a strike with an unknown missile on the city of Dnipro, home to the Pivdenmach group, which notably produces components for missiles.
“There is no way today to counter such weapons. The missiles attack targets at a speed of Mach 10, or 2.5 to 3 kilometers per second. The air defense systems currently available in the world and the missile defense systems created by the Americans in Europe do not intercept these missiles. This is excluded,” he insisted.
ALSO READ In Russia, the alliance of the missal and the missileThe use of this new missile, described as invincible by Putin, is a “worrying development” for the UN. “This is a worrying and worrying new development, it’s all going in the wrong direction,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told reporters. He called on the parties to take “urgent steps towards de-escalation to ensure the protection of civilians and critical civilian infrastructure”, repeating Antonio Guterres’ call for an end to this war in accordance with international law.
Zelensky calls on the international community to “react”
Thursday evening, Volodymyr Zelensky called on the international community to “react”, believing that this new Russian weapon increases “the scale and brutality” of the war between the two countries. “The world must react. For now, there is no strong reaction,” Zelensky lamented in a message on social media. “We have to react. We have to put pressure on. Russia must be pushed towards true peace, which is only possible by force.”
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According to him, this medium-range ballistic missile launch on Ukraine is “proof that Russia absolutely does not want peace”. “This is a clear and serious increase in the scale and brutality of this war,” Zelensky continued.
The United States has assured that it is “not seeking war with Russia”. “It is Russia which is provoking the escalation” in Ukraine, said White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre. At the Pentagon, deputy spokesperson Sabrina Singh assured that the United States was not “looking for a broader regional conflict” in Europe.
