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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,
Seth Krummich, a retired Army colonel and vice president at international security firm Global Guardian, told Fox News Digital (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,
former CIA Moscow station chief Dan Hoffman told Fox News Digital He makes these threats because he knows they work,
If this decision is made, it will mean nothing less than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, and European countries, in the war in Ukraine,
Flight assignments for these missile systems can, in fact, only be entered by military personnel from NATO countries. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this. And therefore, it is not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not. It is a question of making a decision whether NATO countries directly participate in the military conflict or not,
Putin said in response to a question on Thursday Russia started this conflict. Russia illegally invaded Ukraine. Russia can end this conflict straight away. Ukraine has the right to self-defence.”
The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, also responded to Putin’s threats, telling reporters It is necessary to take all events in Ukraine and on the Ukrainian-Russian front very seriously, but I would not attach excessive importance to the latest statements from president Putin,
said the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk If we learn one lesson in this Russian aggression against Ukraine, it’s that we should not listen to Putin. He has been lying to us all the time,
the former ambassador said According to international law, one country is allowed to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity against the aggression of another how it sees fit,
I think that the Russian regime – and especially the president – usually does this when he doesn’t know how to respond – it’s usually just rhetoric,
said Peter Bátor, a defence policy expert who until recently served as Slovakia’s ambassador to Nato Putin threatened the west before and he will continue to do so as long as these threats have an impact.”
We see more Russian attacks on civilian Ukrainian infrastructure, more hybrid actions against allies and more drones and missiles entering Nato airspace on the eastern flank – Latvia, Poland, Romania”.
They rather show the difficult situation the Russians have on the front,
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."
Starmer pushed back against Putin's threats, saying 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,
Blinken said, while speaking alongside Ukrainian Foreign Minister AndriiSybihaand Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy