Ukraine parliament cancels session over threat of Russian attack

It’s part of a broader Russian official strategy to obscure crossing thresholds with language that suggests the threshold isn’t fully crossed – or can still be reversed,

Baunov wrote

Donald Tuskpolish Prime Minister

The war in the east is entering a decisive phase, we feel that the unknown is approaching,

Tusk told a teachers conference

Valerii Zaluzhnyichief

I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun.

Valery Zaluzhny, who is now Ukraine's envoy to the United Kingdom, told the UP100 award ceremony in Kyiv

Don't think that someone somewhere is bluffing, unfortunately, nobody is bluffing and, unfortunately, we are walking into mild disaster'

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We believe that we have the right to use our weapons against military facilities of the countries that allow to use their weapons against our facilities,

he added

Vladimir Putinpresident

In response to the use of American and British long-range weapons, on Nov. 21 of this year, the Russian armed forces launched a combined strike on one of the facilities of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine,

Putin said

There are signals of an increased risk of attacks on the government district in the coming days. Also in Kyiv and Ukraine in general,

MP Yevgenia Kravchuk told AFP

We have, in fact, derailed the entire 2025 campaign,

Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said of the Ukrainian army in a video published by the Russian defence ministry

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

We are in no doubt that the current administration in Washington has had the chance to familiarise itself with this announcement and understand it,

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

The main message is that the reckless decisions and actions of Western countries, which produce missiles, supply them to Ukraine and subsequently take part in carrying out strikes on Russian territory, cannot remain without a reaction from the Russian side,

Peskov said

Mykyta PoturayevmP

There was also a recommendation to limit the work of all commercial offices and NGOs that remain in that perimeter, and local residents were warned of the increased threat,

MP Mykyta Poturaiev said

Putin may decide that he can afford to continue on and put more pressure on the Trump administration to, in turn, pressure Kyiv and pressure European countries to get the … victor's peace that he wants,

said Sussex

It was a very direct warning … A threat from a nuclear superpower directed at another three nuclear-armed nations,

he told CNA938, referring to Ukraine allies US, UK and France

The West would not be prepared to simply clean itself dry in order to give Ukraine what it wants and wishes,

he added

Putin feels that he can get a much more sympathetic ear from President Trump 2.0 than he can from Biden,

said Sussex, who is associate professor at the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University

This is much more aimed at the Western public, to make them fear the prospect of (a) nuclear holocaust and to make them worry about the potential for escalation,

he said

Deploying this capability will neither change the course of the conflict nor deter Nato allies from supporting Ukraine,

Farah Dakhlallah said

Several massive explosions occurred in Sumy,

Artem Kobzar said on Telegram

All of this [is] going in the wrong direction,

Stéphane Dujarric said as he called on all parties to de-escalate the conflict and “to protect civilians, not hit civilian targets or critical civilian infrastructure”.

The sirens ultimately ended, but there was still a rush to the basements and to the concrete parking lots because it just creates a tremendous amount of fear. And that's what the Russians wanted, fear among those who are living and surviving."

MacCarley said