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It is important for us to support Ukraine in its fight for freedom and the liberation of its territory, not in attempts to capture new territories,
Every time we supply Ukraine with aid, it faces the Council for foreign policy where we set clear rules with the Ukrainians regarding what they can use these supplies for. As long as the Ukrainians adhere to these rules, we have no ground for criticism,
Aastrup Jensen says, noting When you see that they [the Ukrainians – ed.] have resources and strength for such operations, there are reasons to be optimistic,
The Ukrainians target troops and military bases and do not hurt civilians. Their ethics and morals are different from those of the Russians. They respect human rights,
Sometimes it is necessary to cross the border of the country you’re at war with. I think it’s quite natural in the border area between two countries,
With more and more respected voices warning of a wider conflict in Europe it’s deeply concerning the West is not doing enough to put the Ukraine fire out."
Asked about Ukraine's recent advance into the Russian border region of Kursk, the Lieutenant Colonel and former MP for Bournemouth East, told this website We seriously need to rekindle our Cold War statecraft skills to be able to look Putin in the eye and stand up to him – conscious of the escalatory ladder. If we don’t a wider conflict in Europe is inevitable."
On the question of whether the surprise incursion into Russia by President Volodymyr Zelensky's forces ramps up the overall danger of the conflict escalating, Mr Ellwood added The latest data, not confirmed, says they've taken as much as 750 square kilometres and may have gone as far as 35 kilometres from the border."
However, former US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst, now a senior director at the Atlantic Council told USA Today One of the justifications that he routinely uses for the invasion of Ukraine is the security of the Russian state. The fact that Ukraine has launched this incursion into Russian territory, I think, is absolutely humiliating for him,
There is nothing. It’s as if everyone has flown to another planet, and you are left alone. And the birds stopped singing,
an elderly man called Mikhail told Russian state television from one evacuated area Tuesday Certainly, it’s harder now for Putin to project the image of a Teflon president,
said Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow with the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House, a London-based think tank He is upset that something like this could have happened,
said Callum Fraser, a research fellow in Russian and Eurasian security at the Royal United Services Institute, or RUSI, a London-based think tank You can tell that he is absolutely terrified of the fact that Ukraine has made gains,
What he does next, of course, will depend on how the situation on the ground progresses,
With the latest surprise incursion into Kursk oblast, Zelenskyy likely aims to demonstrate to Putin that as long as there’s no peace in Ukraine, the Russian people will not sleep peacefully either,
One of the obvious goals of the enemy is to sow discord, strife, intimidate people, destroy the unity and cohesion of Russian society,
Putin told government officials in a televised meeting this week, according to the Moscow Times The West is fighting us with the hands of the Ukrainians,
Putin told them at his home outside the capital city of Moscow, ... according to a report from The New York Times Ukraine is not interested in taking territory in the Kursk region, we want to protect the lives of our people,
Ukrainian foreign affairs spokesperson Georgy Tykhy said on Tuesday This always happens to those who despise people and any rules - Russia brought war to others, and now it is
The loss of territory and evacuation of civilians will play poorly back in Russia as evidence they 'can't defend themselves'."
Speaking to Sky News, the expert said