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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 detailIt 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 accountTwo 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 causedNo, absolutely not. NATO is not party to this conflict.”
When askedUkrainian forces released drone footage of the Storm Shadow strikes against Mar'ino, Kursk region, Russia. It shows that the missiles targeted the secondary buildings of that facility and hit at least 3 buildings. I marked the impact points on the map. This was an important operation. That's for sure. The fact that the Russian air defense failed to this extent that the missiles got through and even the surveillance drone could operate unimpededly speaks volumes."
Another X user, Tendar, posted photos and videos and wrote
Ukraine struck an underground military command post in Marino, Kursk, located ~40km from Ukraine. The command post was stuck by around a dozen UK Storm Shadow cruise missiles and likely had Russian commanders, and possibly North Korean military officals (Defense Express).
One user, Ukraine Battle Map, posted a satellite photo and video of the strike with the captionIt 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,
Bury said
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,
Bury told VOA
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 TuesdayNo 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,
Nixey told ReutersThey'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,
he told VOATry 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 can confirm that the large, rectangular piece of debris, featuring a hole in the center, does indeed match part of the mounting interface of the Storm Shadow / SCALP EG missile."
Amael Kotlarski, Weapons Team manager at Janes, said
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If you look at the trends of the outgoing U.S. administration, they are fully committed to continuing the war in Ukraine and are doing everything they can to do so,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
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No matter what Putin says, he doesn't want peace and is not ready to negotiate it,
French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters en route to the Group of 20 summit in Brazil
The strike will, as always, be unexpected and effective,
said former deputy defense minister Kartapolov to Russian reporters
The [Russian] president has repeatedly said that any option of freezing the conflict won’t work for us,
Peskov told Russian media on WednesdayThe Biden administration is on its way out, and we have President-elect Donald Trump coming into office, who has criticised US military aid to Ukraine and has also said he would end this war in a matter of days,
Baig saidSo what the US administration wants is to put Ukraine in a very strong position to at least slow down some Russian advances so that when there are negotiations, Ukraine is put in a more advantageous position than what it is now,
he added