The attack caused only two injuries and minor damage, but it marks a major escalation in the conflict. Thursday November 21, Vladimir Putin sent a message using a weapon capable of delivering a nuclear charge on the city of Dniprolocated in east-central Ukraine. A “appropriate response“, according to the Kremlin, after the use of American and British missiles during two Ukrainian bombings on Russian soil.
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“When it all started in the morning, I wasn't home, I heard the explosion, it was down the street“, says Alina, a 28-year-old resident of Dnipro. Since the start of the war, she has worked in a humanitarian organization. “It was really different from usual: it wasn't one explosion, then another, then another. It was full of explosions at the same time“, she continues.
“People only talk about that”
Vladimir Putin used a new missile, which he touts as impossible to counter, capable of simultaneously deploying several independent warheads during the re-entry phase, a capability exclusively associated with nuclear-capable missiles. “People only talk about that. People laugh, say that now they won't be afraid of anythingtestifies Alina. But I don't want to go through that again. My mother was very scared. She stayed in the hallway for two hours without moving.“.
In a message sent on social networks, President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the international community to react, denouncing a “crazy neighbor” which uses Ukraine as a military “testing ground”.
A report by Stanislas Poyet, edited by Diane Warin?
