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This is, of course, a signal that they want to escalate.”
Regarding Tuesday’s ATACMS attack, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said We will be taking this as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia. And we will react accordingly.”
Speaking at a news conference during the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Brazil, Lavrov accused Washington of helping Kyiv operate the missiles and said ... He did not go further into detail It is important that Ukrainian arguments are heard. This includes the long-range weapons.”
When thanking the officials for visiting him, Zelenskyy posted on his X account No, absolutely not. NATO is not party to this conflict.”
Two Storm Shadow cruise missiles, six HIMARS [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System] rockets, and 67 unmanned aerial vehicles were neutralised by air defence systems,
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Thursday without sharing the location of the attack or information about any damage caused It will slow down the rate of advance, but will it have a strategic impact? Would it change the course of the war? If you're giving them clearance to fire inside Russia, are you going to allow them to actually up the ante and start hitting energy infrastructure, you know, military infrastructure, oil refineries, etcetera, stuff that would really start to hurt the Russian economy? That's the question,
They are air launch missiles. Generally, depending on the export variant, they’ve usually got a range of 250 kilometers, or 155 miles. The ATACMS has a longer range than that and isn't air-launched - so therefore it's harder to intercept - in theory, at least,
Nothing has changed for us, the situation, the circumstances are the same. And Taurus is Taurus - and not ATACMS or Storm Shadow - so our perspective on that issue is the same,
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters Tuesday No single new innovation into the Ukrainian battlefield will do the trick, although they are hoping it will do. They're hoping that it will break the Russian spine and that the [Russian military] will fold, collapse and that will have a chain reaction back up into the Moscow. That seems relatively unlikely, I have to say. But the Ukrainians are desperate and they will do all that they possibly can with however little that they have,
They're both nuclear powers, they can take that risk if they want to. I think you might find a divergence between European NATO and U.S. NATO on some policy issues around Ukraine,
Try telling Donald Trump these helicopters and ships were getting old and were costing more to repair, he'll only hear that Britain is making cuts'
One senior naval figure remarked We can confirm that the large, rectangular piece of debris, featuring a hole in the center, does indeed match part of the mounting interface of the Storm Shadow / SCALP EG missile."
Amael Kotlarski, Weapons Team manager at Janes, said 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,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said We have seen over recent weeks a significant change in the [Russian] action and the rhetoric on Ukraine
Whoever controls Kursk at Christmas will be on the front foot ahead of ceasefire negotiations which could start when US President-elect Donald Trump takes office
No matter what Putin says, he doesn't want peace and is not ready to negotiate it,
French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters en route to the Group of 20 summit in Brazil The strike will, as always, be unexpected and effective,
said former deputy defense minister Kartapolov to Russian reporters The [Russian] president has repeatedly said that any option of freezing the conflict won’t work for us,
Peskov told Russian media on Wednesday The Biden administration is on its way out, and we have President-elect Donald Trump coming into office, who has criticised US military aid to Ukraine and has also said he would end this war in a matter of days,
So what the US administration wants is to put Ukraine in a very strong position to at least slow down some Russian advances so that when there are negotiations, Ukraine is put in a more advantageous position than what it is now,
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