RIGA - Latvia will request an extraordinary meeting of the United Nations Security Council in response to Russia's barbaric attack against Ukraine, including using an intermediate range ballistic missile close to the European Union and NATO border, Foreign Minister Baiba Braze (New Unity) said in a post to X on Friday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the United States to respond to Russia's deployment of a nuclear-capable medium-range missile in fresh attacks on Ukraine, DPA reports.
Russia pummeled its smaller neighbor with renewed strikes overnight, using 242 drones, 22 cruise missiles and 13 ballistic missiles, including the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile, Zelensky wrote on social media.
Civilian infrastructure, energy facilities and a building linked to the embassy of Qatar in Kiev were hit, Zelensky said, reporting many fatalities.
It was initially not possible to independently verify the claims, but Russia has said it used the Oreshnik missile in attacks on western Ukraine in response to an alleged Ukrainian attack on one of the residences of Russian President Vladimir Putin late last year.
Moscow has only deployed the Oreshnik against Ukraine once before, in an attack on Dnipro in November 2024.
"A clear reaction from the world is needed," Zelensky said.
"Above all from the United States, whose signals Russia truly pays attention to. Russia must receive signals that it is its obligation to focus on diplomacy, and must feel consequences every time it again focuses on killings and the destruction of infrastructure," said Zelensky.
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