You want to weaken the enemy that attacks you in order to not only fight the arrows that come your way, but also attack the archer that is, as we see, very often operating from Russia proper into Ukraine,
There are a number of things that go into the overall equation as to whether or not you know you want to provide one capability or another,
They've proven themselves fairly effective in building out uncrewed aerial vehicles, in building out drones,
It's important to take into consideration every aspect, including the potential of escalation and other things."
Every nation that is attacked has the right to defend itself. And that right doesn’t stop at the border of your own nation,
We need to boost our air defence and long-range capabilities to protect our people,
We believe that the Ukrainians should decide themselves how to use it,
I find that relationship between what the Pentagon is advising the president based on intelligence versus the international pressure to be the really interesting part of the story,
(Putin) is trying to deeply destabilize the international rules-based order that protects us all, not just in every democracy around the world, but in all countries around the world,
Putin's war in Ukraine has been a massive failure – hundreds of thousands of casualties, a brain drain, a million Russians have fled, Sweden and Finland are now NATO members, the list goes on,
He makes these threats because he knows they work,
To reiterate, it was Russia who started this in the first place. They caused the conflict; they're the ones who are acting unlawfully,
Russia started this conflict."
This can be assumed with a high degree of probability,
The discussion about lifting the limitations on the use of the weaponry provided by member states is continuing. And we see the results of the discussion by individual decisions, by member states lifting these decisions. There is no EU-wide position on it – of course, it’s up to the member states who are providing the arms to Ukraine’s defence,
We've now seen this action of Russia acquiring ballistic missiles from Iran, which will further empower their aggression in Ukraine, so if anyone is taking escalatory action, it would appear to be Mr. Putin and Russia,
From day one, as you heard me say, we have adjusted and adapted as needs have changed, as the battlefield has changed, and I have no doubt that we'll continue to do that as this evolves,
This would in a significant way change the very nature of the conflict. It would mean that Nato countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia.”
The escalator here is Putin. Putin has escalated with the shipment of missiles from Iran. We see a new axis of Russia, Iran and North Korea,
My home is near the famous Gele mountain. It has about 2,500 solid steps and the peak is about 678 metres,