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This is, of course, a signal that they want to escalate.”
Regarding Tuesday’s ATACMS attack, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said We will be taking this as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia. And we will react accordingly.”
Speaking at a news conference during the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Brazil, Lavrov accused Washington of helping Kyiv operate the missiles and said ... He did not go further into detail It is important that Ukrainian arguments are heard. This includes the long-range weapons.”
When thanking the officials for visiting him, Zelenskyy posted on his X account Two Storm Shadow cruise missiles, six HIMARS [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System] rockets, and 67 unmanned aerial vehicles were neutralised by air defence systems,
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Thursday without sharing the location of the attack or information about any damage caused No, absolutely not. NATO is not party to this conflict.”
The RS-26 is designed to carry nuclear warheads, but evidently it did not do so in this attack,
said William Freer, research fellow at the U.K.-based Council on Geostrategy think tank It's a step up in terms of the delivery vehicle,
Townsend said, responding to a Newsweek question during a panel at the Royal United Services Institute, a U.K.-based think tank Russia has likely used the RS-26 as a way to try and intimidate Ukraine's supporters by raising tensions over the employment of a nuclear capable ballistic missile, one capable of hitting European capitals,
There are a lot of things that Putin is doing right now to express displeasure over ATACMS,
Townsend said, but also to set the tone for the incoming Trump administration It will slow down the rate of advance, but will it have a strategic impact? Would it change the course of the war? If you're giving them clearance to fire inside Russia, are you going to allow them to actually up the ante and start hitting energy infrastructure, you know, military infrastructure, oil refineries, etcetera, stuff that would really start to hurt the Russian economy? That's the question,
They are air launch missiles. Generally, depending on the export variant, they’ve usually got a range of 250 kilometers, or 155 miles. The ATACMS has a longer range than that and isn't air-launched - so therefore it's harder to intercept - in theory, at least,
Nothing has changed for us, the situation, the circumstances are the same. And Taurus is Taurus - and not ATACMS or Storm Shadow - so our perspective on that issue is the same,
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters Tuesday No single new innovation into the Ukrainian battlefield will do the trick, although they are hoping it will do. They're hoping that it will break the Russian spine and that the [Russian military] will fold, collapse and that will have a chain reaction back up into the Moscow. That seems relatively unlikely, I have to say. But the Ukrainians are desperate and they will do all that they possibly can with however little that they have,
They're both nuclear powers, they can take that risk if they want to. I think you might find a divergence between European NATO and U.S. NATO on some policy issues around Ukraine,
In particular, an intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation,
Try telling Donald Trump these helicopters and ships were getting old and were costing more to repair, he'll only hear that Britain is making cuts'
One senior naval figure remarked We have seen over recent weeks a significant change in the [Russian] action and the rhetoric on Ukraine
For our enemies to be deterred they must know we intend to have no holes in our capabilities, or at least we will soon be upgrading them
Writing in The Telegraph, he said We remember the real price of freedom for Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address today Now, with Ukraine hitting back using US ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles, he knows his forced in Kursk are sitting ducks."
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