kyiv Parliament deserted following threat of Russian attack

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The Verkhovna Rada was to meet, among other things, for a question and answer session with the government, Ukrainian deputies will have to wait until December to do so, because following a threat of Russian strikes on the government district, the session was canceled on Friday November 22, reports our correspondent in kyiv, Emmanuelle Chaze.

The parliamentarians were notified of the danger and asked, as well as their families, not to stay in the government district. This incident comes two days after an experimental missile strike that the Russia qualifies as an intermediate-range hypersonic missile on the city of Dnipro, and at a time when Moscow says it has other copies of this missile as a clear threat to kyiv.

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Russia welcomes the fear expressed by Volodymyr Zelensky

In his daily address, Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of the cancellation of the parliamentary session by enjoining, without naming, parliamentarians to carry out their duties except in the event of an air alert. At the time of the incident, it had not sounded, hence the presidential annoyance, at a time when the Russia can only benefit from the destabilization of the Ukrainian state apparatus.

While the Ukrainian president called on the international community the day before to “ react ”, denouncing a “ crazy neighbor ” which uses Ukraine as a ” testing ground », the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrovvisiting Belarus this Friday, welcomed the fear expressed by Volodymyr Zelensky.

“ I understand that Zelensky was afraid and that he directly accused his masters of having allowed him to be disarmed in the face of such action on our part. “, he said. “ It’s probably a useful result, it’s useful that he is closer to reality, that he feels it on his own skin. »

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