“Ukraine has friends, it has someone to rely on, and thanks to this it can respond to Russian terror.”
> Volodymyr Zelensky
President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that Russia must feel that every step it takes to expand the war has consequences for it.
He said this in his evening address.
“At the end of the week – the week when Russia took another step to expand the war – it struck Ukraine with a new missile – it is important for us to note and thank all those who took new steps to support our state, our people, our lives. Ukraine has friends to rely on and thanks to this it can respond to Russian terror and protect life,” Zelensky said.
He recalled that this week Ukraine received several defense aid packages from Denmark and Norway, which prepared the first tranche, which, according to the Danish model, will support the production of weapons in Ukraine. Sweden will also join the financing according to the Danish model. The United States provided a package of 275 million dollars. There is a new package from Germany and Canada.
“Thank you for each such step. No less important are the sanctions – this week gave us new US sanctions against Russia, very effective ones – against the banking sector. This is what significantly weakens the Putin system, and this is what is needed more. He must constantly, weekly lose the ability to finance the war. determination, we must press, and only in this way will real peace become closer,” the president emphasized.
Zelensky recalled that today the SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs showed news agencies the remains of the Russian missile that struck the Dnieper. Expertise is currently underway, as is work with partners to establish all the details and characteristics of this missile.
“And in order to find a response to this Russian escalatory step together. The world has air defense systems capable of protecting against this. We must focus on this – everyone. Russia must feel that each of its steps to expand the war has consequences for it. Consequences – in our actions at the front, our soldiers, our units. And also – consequences in the actions of the world. weeks to adapt and find a counteraction,” the president added.
- On the morning of November 21, the Russians attacked Ukraine. The strikes in Dnepr damaged a building of a rehabilitation center for people with disabilities, a boiler room, and two private homes. The Air Force reported that the Russians used an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time. President Volodymyr Zelensky later confirmed that the missile's characteristics and speed were consistent with the ICBM type.
- That evening, Vladimir Putin said that Russia had fired an “experimental Oreshnik ballistic missile” at Ukraine, allegedly capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. He called it a response to Ukraine's use of ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles in the Kursk and Bryansk regions.
- The EU responded to the strike on the Dnieper and said that Putin is thinking about escalation, not peace.
- A source of LB.ua in the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia has only a few units of the experimental medium-range ballistic missile that struck the Dnieper. At the same time, partners have air defense systems capable of shooting down missiles of this type.
- Foreign Minister Andriy Sygiba called on Ukraine's partners to provide air defense systems capable of shooting down such missiles. He also emphasized that Russia's use of a medium-range ballistic missile is its typical blackmail. Putin is trying to intimidate everyone who supports Ukraine.