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The main message is that the reckless decisions and actions of Western countries that produce missiles, supply them to Ukraine, and subsequently participate in strikes on Russian territory cannot remain without a reaction from the Russian side.
Peskov said
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
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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
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.jpg)
The fact that he [Putin] is most likely passing on personal requests to the command that ‘the fate of the Armed Forces rests on the Kursk operation’,
Zelenskyy said
For Putin, the most important thing is to push us out of Russia’s Kursk Oblast. All these stories, all these indicators, strikes with new missiles, all this is not just for fun. He has set this task. I am sure he wants to push us out by 20 January. It is very important for him to demonstrate that he is in control of the situation. He is not in control of the situation."
Quote from ZelenskyyHe [Putin – ed.] wants to show that he has fulfilled, as he said, the task of occupying the entire Donbas, and he needs to push us out of the Kursk front. He has these two tasks,
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How far do we let them go on our soil?”
Kallas asked
These attacks have the potential to disrupt the critical lifeline of clean and safe drinking water,
state governors were toldMoscow’s escalating hybrid activities against Nato and EU countries are unprecedented in their variety and scale, creating significant security risks,
they declaredAbsolutely, Britain and UK is now directly involved in this war, because this firing cannot happen without NATO staff, British staff as well,
Mr Kelin told the outletIt's not a trick- there will be consequences,
he said
We haven’t seen any indications of Russia preparing to use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine,
said White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to reporters at a briefing on Friday
There is no other way in war,
he said in a video message on his Telegram channelRussia has been using ballistic missiles throughout this war, but this is alleged to have been an intercontinental ballistic missile – which normally has a different use, which, if it is the case, is on the one hand an escalation and a signal, but on the other hand also an act of desperation that Putin is unable to win in this war,
he saidFrom Russia, this is a mockery of the position of states such as China, states of the Global South, some leaders who call for restraint every time."
In his video address, however, Zelensky said
Whatever the Russian missile threat, it cannot be ignored,
the president added—especially with Ukraine's army on the back footI will add that there is no countermeasure to such a missile, no means of intercepting it, in the world today,
he said
This topic used to be a taboo in Russia,
said Denis Volkov, the director of the Levada Center, one of the few independent pollsters in Russia
No one in the world has such weapons,
he said with a thin smile