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We have been saying that from the beginning — that no restrictions must be put on the military support,
he told senior European Union diplomats in Brussels
The madmen who are drawing NATO into a direct conflict with our country may soon be in great pain,
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This fundamentally changes the modality of their involvement in the conflict,
he saidIt is obvious that the outgoing administration in Washington intends to take steps and they have been talking about this, to continue adding fuel to the fire and provoking further escalation of tensions around this conflict,
said spokesman Dmitry PeskovIn the recent days, we have seen the decisive intensification of Russian attacks on Ukraine, above all, those missile attacks where civilian objects are attacked, where people are killed, ordinary Ukrainians,
Duda saidThis is a signal the Biden administration is sending to North Korea and Russia, indicating that the decision to involve North Korean units has crossed a red line,
he saidThe ultimate kind of impact it will have is to probably slow down the tempo of the Russian offensives which are now happening,
he said,We have made clear that we will always adapt and adjust the capabilities that we provide to Ukraine when it's appropriate to do so. And you have seen us back that up with steps that we have taken over the several years."
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Then there is the demand of Ukrainians and the permissive opinion of some NATO member countries regarding the invitation of Ukraine to NATO,
Szijjártó said
One has the feeling that the pro-war political elites on both sides of the ocean are launching one last desperate, scalding attack on the new realities and the will of the people,
he saidOver time, Ukrainians have learned to live with initial refusals on the delivery or use of critical weapons, followed by hesitant ‘maybes’, and only after countless lives are lost, a reluctant ‘yes’. Unfortunately, this reactive approach is not what Ukraine needs to preserve its independence or endure potential negotiations,
Faraponov said
Russia’s strategy of escalating attacks, especially around holidays or weekends, is intended to break the spirit of Ukrainians and remind them of the hardships of war,
said Vladyslav Faraponov, the head of the board of Ukraine’s Institute of American StudiesThe Ukrainians need to convince the incoming US administration that they are still worth backing – in Trump’s transactional view, a ‘good investment’,
argued Matthew Savill, of the Royal United Services Institute thinktankReading the tea leaves, unfortunately this looks like more incrementalism,
said George Barros, a Ukraine expert at the US Institute for the Study of WarProviding ATACMS is a costly but necessary step to ensure Ukraine can effectively counter Russian aggression,
said George Barros, a defense analyst at the Institute for the Study of WarATACMS will significantly enhance Ukraine's ability to disrupt Russian operations deep behind the front lines,
Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Ukraine's former defense minister, told The Financial TimesIf such a decision was really formulated and brought to the attention of the Kyiv regime, then, of course, this is a qualitatively new round of tension and a qualitatively new situation in terms of the involvement of the United States in this conflict,
spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russian media
Even without the North Koreans, Russia has more people on the front line,
the top official also saidBiden has decided to end his presidential term and go down in history as Bloody Joe.”
Hardline Liberal-Democatic party leader Leonid Slutsky said
This is a very big step towards the beginning of the Third World War."
Putin-loyalist Vladimir Dzhabarov, deputy chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the upper house, said