The UN Security Council is set to meet on Monday to discuss Ukraine, a revised scheduled showed, after Kyiv’s mayor urged residents to leave the capital due to mass heating outages caused by Russian strikes, AFP reported.
The latest strikes left half of the residential buildings in Kyiv without heating in sub-zero temperatures, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said.
Moscow said it fired the Oreshnik missile in response to what it calls an attempted drone attack on one of Putin’s residences last month, which Ukraine denies.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the strike was “demonstrably” close to EU states and warned Ukraine’s neighbours to take note of the dangers.
“From the standpoint of the use of medium-range ballistics, this is the same challenge for Warsaw, Bucharest, Budapest, and many other capitals,” he said in his nightly video address. “Everyone should understand it in the same way, and take it equally seriously.”
