JAKARTA - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Moscow on Tuesday that it was ready to retaliate against an attack by Russia on or around Ukraine's Independence Day.

President Zelensky has warned that Russia, which invaded Ukraine on February 24, could try "something very bad" ahead of Independence Day on Wednesday.

Asked at a news conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda about a possible Russian missile strike in Kyiv, he said there was a threat of attack every day, while Ukrainian intelligence cooperated with foreign intelligence.

"Russia does this all the time. Can they increase the number of these attacks? Yes, they can do it on August 23-24," President Zelensky said.

"What will Ukraine do if they attack Kyiv? Just like now. Because for me as president and for every Ukrainian, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Donbas, it's all the same. Ukrainians live there (and) Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia," he stressed.

He added that the response would be the same for any Ukrainian city attacked from Russia.

"(If they hit us, they will receive a response, a strong response. I want to say that every day this response will grow, it will get stronger and stronger."


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