The Ukrainian president maintains that the launch of a medium-range ballistic missile over Ukraine is “proof that Russia does not want peace at all.” And it requires international pressure.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the international community to react this Thursday, after Moscow claimed to have fired a new hypersonic ballistic missile against Ukraine, increasing the “scale and brutality” of the war between the two countries.
“The world must react. At this moment there is no strong reaction”Zelensky lamented in a message on social media.
“We have to react. We have to apply pressure. “We have to push Russia towards real peace, which is only possible through force,” he insisted.
Zelensky also argued that Putin must “feel the cost of his unhealthy ambitions.”
According to the Ukrainian Head of State, this launch of a medium-range ballistic missile over Ukraine is “Proof that Russia does not want peace at all.”
“This is a clear and serious increase in the scale and brutality of this war,” Zelensky further stressed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the firing of an “Orechnik” missile, a new weapon that he praised and described as unstoppable. This missile was not equipped with a nuclear warhead.
Putin added that the attack targeted the factories of the Pivdenmach group, which makes missile components, in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
The Kremlin leader justified the launch as a response to two recent bombings carried out by Ukraine on Russian territory, using Western ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles.
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Also in response, Moscow had already published a new nuclear doctrine.
Russia itself is accused of escalation and, according to kyiv and the West, is now supported by at least 10,000 North Korean soldiers.
Zelensky defended, this Thursday, that Ukraine has “full right” to use these weapons supplied by the West against Russia, which invaded his country in February 2022.
And he accused Moscow of provoking, with the launch of this missile, a second escalation of the conflict in a year, the first being “the involvement of North Korea in the war against Ukraine, with a contingent of at least 11,000 soldiers.” .
Source: Observadora
