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It is obvious that the outgoing administration in Washington intends to take steps, and they have been talking about this, to continue adding fuel to the fire and provoking further escalation of tensions around this conflict,
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said The military value of both weapons is limited by the fact that there are only limited numbers of Atacms and Storm Shadow,
said Matthew Savill, the director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute thinktank Trump has said he wants to end the war within 24 hours. Nobody is more interested in this topic than Ukraine,
a senior official told the Guardian We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against military facilities of those countries that allow to use their weapons against our facilities,
he said, an escalatory threat clearly aimed at Trump in particular, arguing The frontline is now less stable than at any time since the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion,
warned the British defence secretary, John Healey, on Thursday Finally, at the end of Biden’s term, the White House is more helpful. But it can’t compensate for delays in previous years,
But the problem is, for the moment, everything is just speculation. Will it be the first peace plan, the second plan, the first variant, the 10th variant?”
If you look at the trends of the outgoing U.S. administration, they are fully committed to continuing the war in Ukraine and are doing everything they can to do so,
It seems that this desire, let's say, to muck things up, can be seen in the current situation,
Lavrov added, going on to say As for what can be expected from Biden and his outgoing administration, well, the ATACMS supplies and allowing the British and French to use Storm Shadows and SCALPSs certainly have an element of trying to leave as negative a legacy as possible for the next administration,
Lavrov said, ... according to the Russian News Agency That is to say, we are defending the Ukrainians against this. It didn't work. So, the biggest danger not right now is not Putin. But I know I'm going to get pushback on that. It's not Putin, it's Joe Biden. Right now, we have a president inbound, President Trump, who will engage and try to ratchet down the drama. That's not so with Joe Biden. As a matter of fact, I don't even know if Joe Biden is the guy in charge,
We have not seen any reason to adjust our own nuclear posture or doctrine in response to Russia's statements,
The escalation at every turn is coming from Russia,
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters, They are now seeing high casualties, and so now what they're doing is turning to DPRK to supply them soldiers,
They (Russia) are the ones escalating. We are going to continue to support Ukraine as they push back on that aggression,
Had self-imposed restrictions been lifted sooner, Ukraine would have made greater advances against the Russians,
Mark Temnycky, a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, explained to BI, arguing Based on how Russia is responding, the war may be more 'on fire' by Inauguration Day,
Every decision's been too late,
Mick Ryan, a retired Australian Army major general and strategist, told BI He doesn't want his legacy to be stained by the war in Europe,
The Ukrainians really need to stem this loss of territory, to slow down — if not stop — the Russian advances in the east,
