President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has responded to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's proposal to hold a ‘high-tech duel with the United States’ during missile strikes on Kyiv.
"People are dying, and he thinks it's 'interesting'... Dumbass", Zelenskyy said in a post on his Facebook page.
The word ‘dumbass’ was used to describe the mental and moral qualities of the Russian dictator.
- Earlier today, during his live Direct Line, Russian President Putin challenged the United States to a ‘high-tech duel’. He said that the essence of the duel would be that Russia could launch a missile, which it calls ‘Oreshnik’, at Kyiv, and Western air defence systems would try to shoot it down.
- Afterwards, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Putin's statements about a ‘high-tech duel with the United States’ during missile strikes on Kyiv inadequate.
- On 17 November, it became known that US President Biden had authorised Ukraine to fire long-range missiles deep into Russia.
- On the morning of 21 November, the Russians attacked Ukraine once again. The strikes in Dnipro damaged the building of a rehabilitation centre for people with disabilities, a boiler room, and two private homes. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that the Russians had used an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time. Zelenskyy later confirmed that the characteristics and speed of the missile were consistent with an ICBM.
- In the evening of the same day, Putin said that Russia had fired an ‘experimental Oreshnik ballistic missile’ at Ukraine, which was allegedly capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. He called it a response to Ukraine's use of ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles in Kursk and Bryansk Regions.
- The EU reacted to the attack on Dnipro and said that Putin was thinking about escalation, not peace.
- A source in the Ukrainian Armed Forces Command told LB.ua that Russia has only a few units of the experimental medium-range ballistic missile that struck Dnipro. At the same time, our partners have air defence systems capable of shooting down missiles of this type.
- According to the British Ministry of Defence, Russia may have only a few Oreshnik missiles that have not yet entered mass production.