The Foreign Minister of Ukraine welcomes the green light from Washington on the use of missiles in Russia

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Missiles for Ukraine: Russia warns of escalation, Zelensky on the front

The Kremlin warned on Monday against a new escalation and promised an “appropriate” response if long-range missiles were to be launched against Russia, following the green light given by the United States to Kyiv, while in which there was a new strike” Kiev’s use of long-range missiles to attack our territory would mean the direct participation of the United States and its satellites (…), as well as “changing radical in the meaning and true nature of the conflict,” said Russian diplomatic spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. “Russia’s response in such a case will be appropriate and will be felt. ” Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Eastern Front on Monday, visiting his troops in Pokrovsk, which is currently the main target of Russian attacks in Donbass. He then went to another hot spot, to Kupiansk, a city that the Russians had taken over in 2022 and entered briefly last week, wanted by kyiv for months, Joe Biden’s decision on the missiles was confirmed to AFP on Sunday by an American official. , just a few weeks before Donald Trump takes office, is considered less likely to help Kiev From Rio de Janeiro, where he attends the G20, Joe Biden called together the leaders of the most developed economies to “strongly support to the sovereignty” of Ukraine, without mentioning long-range missiles, however. from thousands of North Korean soldiers. “This decision was necessary a year ago,” he lamented. On the battlefield, in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian soldiers, forced to give ground almost every day, were doubtful. which the Russians are getting closer every day. Moscow, moreover, said on Monday that a new town had been conquered, the town of Novooleksiivka, which is about 15 kilometers south of this city. For the first time in several weeks, the head- Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit on Monday sat on the front, closest. to the fighting, in Pokrovsk, then in Koupiansk, further north – “The horror” – The stability of American support has been called into question by the election of Donald Trump, whose calls during the election campaign – sitting making Kiev and its supporters. fear that he is trying to force Ukraine to make unacceptable concessions. Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose troops are on the move, warned that any discussion of an end to hostilities could only be based on “new territorial realities”. a tactic that many in Ukraine saw as an attempt to break the confidence of the people, with a view to possible negotiations. A Russian missile attack in daylight on Monday left at least ten people dead and 47 wounded in Odessa, a port city on the Black Sea, according to the authorities. Seven police officers, a caretaker and two village residents were among those killed, the regional governor said, according to the Ukrainian air force, it was shrapnel from a Russian projectile that fell on a residential area. “I saw the horror”, said AFP Andriï, originally from Kherson, in the south, where he lived “under Russian occupation” “for six months”, in 2022. Released the same year, Kherson is bombed daily by the Russian army. Andriï moved to Odessa to be “quiet”: “But as the situation in recent weeks shows, it is the same as in Kherson. People die every day … “In the east, three people were killed in Russian strikes, regional authorities said two in Kostiantynivka (and two wounded), as well as a third in the Siversk Separately, the Organization for the Prohibition of Weapons (OPCW) announced on Monday that they had found CS tear gas in samples of a grenade and soil they provided. Ukraine suffered over the weekend following a major Russian attack on its energy facilities, forcing it to announce major cuts in electricity supplies, the first in months.bur-ant/bds /mm/ib