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I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun.
Valery Zaluzhny, who is now Ukraine's envoy to the United Kingdom, told the UP100 award ceremony in Kyiv The war in the east is entering a decisive phase, we feel that the unknown is approaching,
Tusk told a teachers conference Don't think that someone somewhere is bluffing, unfortunately, nobody is bluffing and, unfortunately, we are walking into mild disaster'
It is necessary to demonstrate the full murderous power of Russian long-range weapons,
Putin is clearly signalling increased reliance on strategic weapons - including nuclear and longer-range missiles - to push the U.S. and NATO to stop its support for Ukraine,
said Jon Wolfsthal, a former special assistant to President Barack Obama and now director of global risk at the Federation of American Scientists They are sitting there in the West and it is warm and quite calm. So let them feel on their own skin what a real war is,
Putin is saying to the West stop - halt - back off,
Sergei Markov, a former Kremlin adviser, told Reuters I don't think he has any intention to go nuclear in a war he is winning, but he appears to want us to worry a lot, perhaps to make it easier for Trump to cut and run,
We have no doubt that the current administration in Washington has had the opportunity to familiarize itself with this announcement and understand it,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, referring to Putin’s statement a day earlier From the Russian side, this is just a cognitive warfare move,
These are rockets that are fired and then guided to a target via an electronic system, which requires the world's most advanced technology and satellite communications capability,
Orban said on state radio These weapons are used to destroy people, not to destroy objects,
said Artiukh, according to Suspilne It's not a trick...there will be consequences,
The Russian side has clearly demonstrated its capabilities, and the contours of further retaliatory actions in the event that our concerns were not taken into account have also been quite clearly outlined,
Deploying this capability will neither change the course of the conflict nor deter NATO allies from supporting Ukraine,
said spokesperson Farah Dakhlallah, Reckless actions by the West which supply missiles to Ukraine and later take part in strikes against Russia can’t be left without a Russian response,
Peskov told a daily news briefing Russia may be seeking to use this capability to try to intimidate Ukraine and its supporters or generate attention in the information space, but it will not be a game changer in this conflict,
Under the current circumstances, all parties should remain calm and restrained, work to cool the situation through dialogue and consultations, and create conditions for a political settlement of the crisis [as China refers to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine – ed.], in order to achieve a ceasefire as soon as possible
The West would not be prepared to simply clean itself dry in order to give Ukraine what it wants and wishes,
Putin may decide that he can afford to continue on and put more pressure on the Trump administration to, in turn, pressure Kyiv and pressure European countries to get the … victor's peace that he wants,
