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The Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression against it with the use of conventional weapons."
Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, said on Tuesday I think that was the most difficult period, but now this period, this moment depends, I think, on our unity in Ukraine, and I think that what is very dangerous is if we lose unity in Europe and, what is most important, unity between Ukraine and the United States,
This is more of the same irresponsible rhetoric from Russia, which we have seen for the past two years,
Ukraine’s armed forces last night struck a facility in the Bryansk region” with six U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System rockets, or ATACMS, but that its forces shot down five of them and damaged the sixth
The Russian defense ministry said in a statement We will be taking this as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia. And we will react accordingly,
Lavrov told a news conference at the G20 summit in Brazil We have a special secure line for communication between the two presidents, Russia and the United States. Moreover, even for video communication,
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s RIA news agency Typically, several hundred of these at a time will just be liberally and indiscriminately spread across the territory,
Pete Smith, the Ukraine program manager for the HALO Trust, a nonprofit organization focused on ridding warzones of landmines, told "60 Minutes" in August Russia is attacking Ukrainian lines in the east with waves of troops, regardless of the casualties that they’re suffering. So the Ukrainians are obviously taking losses, and more towns and cities are at risk of falling. These mines were made specifically to combat exactly this."
It will put more civilians at risk of being injured by unexploded mines, and is unnecessary from a military perspective,
Biden stated at the time as a presidential candidate, describing Trump’s decision as "reckless".