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We welcome all relevant and constructive initiatives that support a comprehensive, just, and durable peace, upholding all the Purposes and Principles of the UN Charter for the promotion of peaceful, friendly, and good neighborly relations among nations,
the statement continued
The madmen who are drawing NATO into a direct conflict with our country may soon be in great pain,
Rossiyskaya Gazeta said
In 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 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 WarYou basically have a labour shortage across the entire Russian economy,
Hinz said
You produce the propellant, you have to use it somehow. That does suggest the production of missiles will increase,
he said, addingSatellite imagery suggests that solid-propellant rocket motor-production capacity appears to be one focus of this effort,
Hinz wrote in his report, which was published in Military Balance Plus, an IISS blogWhether they have enough domestic sourcing or are getting it elsewhere I'm not entirely sure,
he said of the chemical used as an oxidiserOn the morning of November 17, soldier Nataliia Hrabarchuk successfully shot down a russian cruise missile using an Igla MANPADS. It was her first combat launch and first successful hit!"
The footage of Hrabarchuk, shared on X, formerly Twitter by the Ukrainian Air Force account said that
Nataliia Hrabarchuk was a kindergarten teacher before she joined the Army. Since 2021, she is an anti-aircraft gunner of the anti-aircraft missile unit of the Galicia-Volyn radio engineering brigade of the "West" air command. Glory to Ukrainian Defenders!"
A further post on X, from Anton Gerashchenko, the former adviser to Ukraine's Internal Affairs Ministry, saidIf such a decision was really formulated and announced to the Kyiv regime, then of course it's a qualitatively new spiral of tensions and a qualitatively new situation from the point of view of the U.S.' engagement in the conflict,
he saidWe have been saying that from the beginning -- that no restrictions must be put on the military support,
he said at a meeting of senior European Union diplomats in Brussels
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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,
spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reportersThis 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 told APThe ultimate kind of impact it will have is to probably slow down the tempo of the Russian offensives which are now happening,
he saidEvery life destroyed by Russia is a big tragedy,
Klymenko said