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The first battles with North Korean soldiers open a new page of instability in the world,
Zelensky said earlier this month We will support Ukraine as intensely and as long as necessary. Why? Because it is our security that is at stake. Each time the Russian army progresses by one square kilometer, the threat gets one square kilometer closer to Europe,
Ukraine is not a testing ground for weapons. Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state,
Just last night, our defense forces managed to shoot down nearly 50 strike drones,
It could be refitted to certainly carry different types of conventional or nuclear warheads,
spokesperson Sabrina Singh warned The UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) were flying in different directions towards Kyiv,
Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said At most, we controlled about 1,376 square kilometres (531 square miles), now of course this territory is smaller. The enemy is increasing its counterattacks,
We see that Russia is using international platforms to legalise their actions, to legalise their occupation of our territory,
Ukraine’s deputy environment minister Olga Yukhymchuk told Reuters The tests [of the missile system] have passed successfully, and I congratulate you all on that,
Putin said, ... according to the Interfax news agency The principle has been set … our messages to President Zelenskyy have been well received,
We sent a notice to the Americans so that we avoid a third world war.”
Sometimes it feels like I no longer care. You get so apathetic, but the ongoing background noise is one thing and using an ICBM for the first time is something else,
said Olga, 50, a university professor from Moscow, referring to early reports that misidentified the missile as intercontinental He didn’t say if they will use nukes or not. But do they have to do it right now? Can they at least wait until after the holidays?”
Ksenia Sobchak, a prominent media personality whose father was Putin’s boss in the 1990s, summed up the sentiment on Telegram with gallows humour Let them tremble in fear,
Andrei Kartapolov, who heads the defence committee in the State Duma, the lower parliamentary house, told the Russian news agency Tass on Friday Everything that works to guide the missile, to make it fly, is all foreign components. All the electronics are foreign. There is nothing Korean in it,
said Andrii Kulchytskyi, head of the military research laboratory of Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise We have successfully traced some of those components, and the last known custodians are Chinese companies,
said Damien Spleeters, deputy director of operations at CAR, which independently documents diverted weapons No manufacturers’ entities have been held responsible for any of these supplies yet. We think that if any of these … manufacturers would be held responsible for the quantity of microelectronics found, say, in Russian missiles hitting Ukraine, (they) would really, really start to do more in that regard,
Russia uses Western components in the whole segment of both lethal weapons and reconnaissance drones,
the representative of DIU told CNN, noting The only thing Korean is the metal, which quickly rusts and corrodes,
We also need to do the appropriate work to close these supply channels,
