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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,
In particular, an intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation,
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 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,
The enemy, unable to subdue Ukrainians by force, resorts to measures of intimidation and psychological pressure on society. We ask you to be vigilant and steadfast,
This message is a fake, it contains grammatical errors typical of Russian information and psychological operations,
said Kyiv’s Main Directorate of Intelligence We are not going [into] detail but we are just saying that we are capable and able to respond,
At this point I’m not able to get into any further operational details,
I've been doubling down in my clear message that we need to ensure Ukraine has what is needed for as long as needed to win this war against Putin
When quizzed on letting Ukraine use the UK-made missiles, the PM said We’re going to continue to monitor, but we don’t have any indications that Russia is preparing to use a nuclear weapon within Ukraine,
said Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh That is something that I cannot be responsible for, and don’t want to be responsible for.”
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