The airspace was closed in the Russian region from where the Oreshnik missiles are launched, on the afternoon of Friday 29/11.
The announcement of this decision in the previous days has caused global concern about another launch of an attack with this hypersonic missile.
In fact, he threatened nuclear annihilation if Ukraine acquired nuclear weapons from the West.
“Of course, we will respond to the ongoing strikes on Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles, as has already been said, including possibly continuing to test the Oreshnik under combat conditions, as was done on November 21,” Putin told a meeting of the security alliance of former Soviet countries in Kazakhstan, yesterday Thursday.
Russia’s Oreshnik hypersonic missile was first fired at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last week, on November 21, and according to the Russian president, it cannot be intercepted.
As Putin mentioned, in case of mass use of Oreshnik, the power of the blow will be comparable to nuclear weapons.
The temperature of the impact elements of the missile reaches four thousand degrees.
The Oreshnik ballistic missile destroys even “specially protected and deeply hidden objects”, while “whatever is at the center of the explosion breaks into elementary particles and turns into dust.”
Two Ukrainian settlements under Russian control
Russian forces have taken control of two settlements, Verkhokamiyanka and Rozdolne, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on its Telegram channel.
Russia shot down ten US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles fired from Ukraine in the past week, the ministry also said.
Ukrainian strikes at an oil station in Rostov
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military said it struck the Atlas oil terminal in Russia’s Rostov region overnight, causing a fire.
“Atlas is part of the Russian military-industrial complex that supplies petroleum products to the Russian military,” the military said in a statement on the Telegram app.
According to several Russian Telegram channels, the oil depot in Rostov region of Russia is still burning after a drone attack last night.
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en)
Ukraine also hit a Russian Buk anti-aircraft system radar station in the southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia, the statement added.
Letter from the Ukrainian Foreign Minister to NATO
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibykha urged his counterparts to extend an invitation to Kiev to join the Western military alliance when they meet in Brussels next week, according to the text of the letter seen by Reuters.
The letter reflects a renewed effort by Kiev to secure an invitation to join NATO, which is part of a “victory plan” outlined last month by President Volodymyr Zelensky to end the war sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Ukraine says it accepts it cannot join NATO until the end of the war but extending an invitation now would show Russian President Vladimir Putin that one of his main goals, which is to prevent Kiev from joining NATO, is not could be achieved.
NATO has declared that Ukraine will join the alliance and that it is on an “irreversible” path to membership. But he has not extended a formal invitation or set a timetable for her joining.
NATO diplomats say there is no consensus among alliance members to invite Ukraine at this stage. Any such decision would require the consent of all 32 NATO member countries.
But Sibiha in his letter, which is written in English, argues that this is the right time to make the invitation.
“We believe that this invitation should be made at this stage,” he writes.
“It will be an appropriate Allied response to Russia’s continued escalation of war, the latest evidence of which is the involvement of tens of thousands of North Korean troops and the use of Ukraine as a testing ground for new weapons,” Sibiha adds.
“I urge you to support the decision to invite Ukraine to join the Alliance as one of the outcomes of the NATO foreign ministers meeting on December 3-4, 2024,” Sibiha wrote.
Zelensky appoints a new commander of the ground forces
Today, the president appointed Major General Mihailos Drapati as the new commander of the ground forces of Ukraine.
“The Ukrainian army needs internal changes to fully achieve the goals of our state,” Zelesnyi said in a post on the Telegram app.
Also, the Ukrainian president appointed Colonel Oleg Apostol as deputy commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Major General Drapati, according to the president’s statement, organized the defense in the direction of Kharkiv and interrupted the Russian offensive operation, while Colonel Apostoli commanded the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade until today.
