“People laugh, say that now they won’t be afraid of anything anymore,” says Alina.
Published on 22/11/2024 11:25
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A new tipping point in the conflict between Moscow and kyiv? Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, November 22, that the conflict in Ukraine now had all the makings of a war.world” and warned that he did not rule out hitting Western countries.
These threats from the master of the Kremlin come at the end of a day of extreme tensions where Russia used on Ukrainian territory an “Orechnik” ballistic missile, with an intermediate range (up to 5,500 km), designed to carry a nuclear warhead. This attack on the city of Dnipro, which aimed “a site of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex” according to the Kremlin, caused only two injuries and minor damage, but it marks a major escalation in the conflict.
“When it all started in the morning, I wasn't at home, I heard the explosion, it was down the street…“, says Alina, a resident of Dnipro. Since the start of the war, this 28-year-old woman has worked in a humanitarian organization. She says: “It was really different from usual, it wasn't one explosion then another, then another… It was lots of explosions at the same time!“
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 anything… 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, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky considered that this shooting was the act of a “crazy neighbor” which uses Ukraine as a military “testing ground”. He later called on the world to “react“, seeing in this shot the “proof that Russia absolutely does not want peace“.
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