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Nuclear testing would be new. I would not exclude that, and it would be in line with Russia shattering a number of international security arrangements that it has signed up to over the decades during the last couple of years,
The moment of truth has come for the West, whether it desires a full-scale war with Russia."
Sergei Mironov, the leader of a pro-Kremlin political party, said in a press statement on Friday This would be a dramatic escalation of the conflict,
You shouldn’t forget about this and think about the consequences,
Allowing Ukraine to use Western weaponry, assisted with Western satellite images (and) Western military advisers is something that very closely encroaches on vital Russian interests,
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,
What the U.K. and U.S. agree with each other is not for me to judge. It’s up to those who supplied these weapons to decide. International law allows that,
Pistorius said Friday afternoon That is a line that I — as chancellor — do not want to cross,
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said earlier this year regarding providing Ukraine with Taurus missiles And Putin’s threats are Putin’s threats, that’s all that needs to be said. He threatens whenever he likes and whenever he sees fit,
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,
Putin threatened the west before and he will continue to do so as long as these threats have an impact.”
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