Russia warned Ukraine on Thursday that launching a major attack against it on November 4, when the Russian Federation celebrates its national holiday, National Unity Day, would jeopardize the resumption of peace talks.
A trilateral meeting between Russian and Ukrainian representatives, mediated by the United States, is scheduled to take place in November in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, as part of recent US efforts to revive peace talks.
“Let’s see how our Ukrainian adversaries behave over the next few days. (…) If there is heavy shelling during our celebrations, it will probably dampen our spirits, which is only natural,” Yuri Ushakov, the Kremlin’s foreign policy adviser, told a Russian television reporter, according to the EFE and Agerpres news agencies.
On November 4, Russia celebrates National Unity Day, a holiday commemorating the end of the Polish occupation in 1612.
“National Unity Day is our holiday. And I said that the resumption of trilateral negotiations would be announced after it. Obviously, the meeting will take place afterward, not before,” Ushakov reiterated.
The Kremlin on Thursday condemned a massive Ukrainian drone attack on Russia—described by some media outlets as the largest since the start of the war, with 1,214 drones shot down—which took place during the third Russia–Africa summit, held over the past two days in the Russian capital.
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