'First Launches Would Come Soon,' Says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy As US Approves Use Of Long-Range Missiles To Target Deepest Parts Of Russia

Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident

Today, many in the media are talking about the fact that we have received permission to take appropriate actions. But blows are not inflicted with words. Such things are not announced. The rockets will speak for themselves,

said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of the announcement

The decision came far too late. Had it been made at the beginning of the fall, it might have disrupted Russia’s counteroffensive in the Kursk region. And if it had been made even earlier, it could have derailed the offensive in the Pokrovsk direction,

said Glib Voloskyi, an analyst at the CBA Initiatives Center, a think tank

No one anticipated that Joe Biden would ESCALATE the war in Ukraine during the transition period. This is as if he is launching a whole new war,

Ric Grenell, Trump’s former acting director of national intelligence, wrote on X, formerly Twitter

Jonathan Finerdeputy national security adviser

The United States has been clear throughout this conflict that we will make our policy decisions based on the circumstances we identify on the battlefield, including in recent days and weeks a significant Russian escalation that involves the deployment of a foreign country’s forces on its own territory,

Finer said

Biden knows the danger of dragging the U.S. into conflict with Russia,

she said

By authorizing long-range missiles to strike inside Russia, Biden is committing an unconstitutional Act of War that endangers the lives of all U.S. citizens. This is an impeachable offense, but the reality is he’s an emasculated puppet of a deep state,

the Kentucky lawmaker explained

Michael McCaulhouse Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman

If President Biden had made this decision sooner, countless lives could have been saved, and the Russian military would have been degraded,

McCaul explained

As President Trump has said on the campaign trail, he is the only person who can bring both sides together in order to negotiate peace and work towards ending the war and stopping the killing. Only official statements on this matter will come directly from President Trump or his authorized spokespeople,

Steven Cheung, Donald Trump's communications director, told the Washington Examiner

Donald Tuskprime Minister

No one will stop Putin with phone calls,

Tusk snarled

How can a country that purports to support Ukraine, design a peace plan in collaboration with China, an ally of Russia, without consulting Ukraine, the clear victim of Russia's aggression?"

UWC president Paul Grod said

Justin Trudeauprime Minister

The fact that Russia has chosen to redraw those lines on the map is the thing that worries people the most around the world,

Trudeau told reporters before he arrived in Brazil

All the allies in the world would not be able to replace a complete withdrawal from supporting Ukraine by the United States,

he said

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

It is obvious the outgoing administration in the United States wants to throw oil on the fire and escalate the conflict in Ukraine,

Dmitry Peskov said

Andrey Gurulyovrussian lawmaker

There will essentially be nothing left of America, which is trying to drag us into escalation. There will be no Biden or Trump. America is being inflicted with 95 percent total damage,

said Andrei Gurulev, a State Duma deputy, speaking on Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov, via state-owned station Russia-1

Vladimir Putinpresident

It is not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not. It is about deciding whether NATO countries become directly involved in the military conflict or not" and that Moscow would make "appropriate decisions in response to the threats that will be posed to us."

Russian media reported comments Putin made on September 12, in which he said

Today, we are quite ready to destroy the entire nuclear potential of England and France with a single strike. This will be one of the options for deterring the United States from striking Russia,

the former tank commander added

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

If such a decision was really formulated and announced to the Kiev regime, then of course it's a qualitatively new spiral of tensions and a qualitatively new situation from the point of view of the U.S.'s engagement in the conflict,

Peskov told journalists

An early ceasefire and a political solution serve the interests of all parties,

foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a regular briefing, when asked about the U.S. decision

We openly said that this was an option that we would consider if it was to allow to strike targets from where Russians are currently aggressing Ukrainian territory,

Barrot told reporters in Brussels

Nothing new under the sun,

he added ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in the Belgian capital