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If and when the moments when a ceasefire is declared and a negotiation takes place, Ukraine has to be in the strongest possible position with the most leverage to get the best negotiation at the table,
I know that the president-elect had met with Putin and said 'please do not escalate.' He has not taken the president-elect's advice,
Russia can only blame itself for the consequences of its decision to attack Ukraine,
the spokesperson concluded Countries that are prepared to enter into a conflict with Russia risk a nuclear response. This doctrine is primarily a message to the team of the outgoing US president,
summarizes the Russian political scientist Nikolai Kostikin As I always say, ... they're not going to argue this in court: No one's going to hold a hearing before carrying out a nuclear strike."
Podvig remarks ironically From a military point of view, it would make no sense, because it wouldn't change the situation on the front line. You must understand that all other countries would react extremely negatively to any such deployment,
A nuclear power was seen as the potential source of aggression — almost certainly in reference to a NATO state — and its non-nuclear ally would be punished as well,
In response to the use of American and British long-range weapons, on November 21 of this year, the Russian armed forces launched a combined strike on one of the facilities of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine,
Putin said, according to Reuters It is an important move and it pulls against, undermines the narrative that Putin had been trying to establish that it was fine for Russia to rain down Iranian drones and North Korean missiles on Ukraine but a reckless escalation for Ukraine to use Western-supplied weapons at legitimate targets in Russia.
Peter Ricketts, a former U.K. national security adviser who now sits in the House of Lords, said We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against the military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities
Today, our crazy neighbour once again showed what he really is,
Ukrainian President Zelensky said We will decide on the further deployment of medium- and shorter-range missiles depending on the actions of the United States and its satellites,
For humanitarian reasons”, Russia will warn Ukrainian civilians to “leave the danger zones” should Moscow target other facilities in the country with ballistic missiles
Today, our insane neighbour has once again shown what they truly are, and how they despise dignity, freedom, and human life itself,
No existing missile defence systems”, including those in Europe, will be able to intercept Russian ballistic missiles like the Oreshnik
There will be formal appeals, correspondence, and convening of separate formats to ‘wake up the world’ and draw attention,
We call on the international community, every country and every leader who respects the UN Charter to respond immediately to Russia's use of a new type of weapon, to increase the level of armaments in general, without waiting for expert opinions,
We are also already using UN and NATO mechanisms,
Tykhyi said at a briefing in Kyiv So far, we know that according to flight characteristics, it is an ICBM, but we are waiting for more expert opinions to confirm with specific facts what type of missile it was,
He [Putin] is playing yet again a nuclear gamble with the recently-updated nuclear doctrine of Russia, he enlisted North Korean soldiers to come to European soil, so these are all clear signs of will to escalate, not the will to find ways towards peace,
the European Commission spokesman stressed