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Right now, we have to strengthen Ukraine's position on the battlefield. And that’s why today I am proud to announce a new US$2.4 billion package of security assistance… Second, we look ahead to help Ukraine succeed in the long term,
The conditions for Russia's transition to the use of nuclear weapons are also clearly fixed,
Putin said, ... according to a Reuters translation of his comments But there is more work to do,
I’m not impressed, there’s not much new in it,
one senior Biden administration official told the WSJ Russia will not prevail. Ukraine will prevail, and we'll continue to stand by you every step of the way,
We are witnessing how Russia is rapidly ramping up its weapons production and dramatically building up its armed forces. All of this leaves no doubt: For Putin's Russia, Ukraine is only the beginning,
It's totally irresponsible, and I think many in the world have spoken clearly about that when he's been rattling the nuclear saber, including China in the past,
Not for the first time, Putin is playing [a] gamble with his nuclear arsenal,
Russia has nothing left but nuclear blackmail; it has no other instruments to intimidate the world,
Andriy Yermak, head of the president's office, wrote on Telegram on Wednesday evening The United States and our international partners remain resolute in our commitment to prevent cybercrime facilitators like PM2BTC and Cryptex from operating with impunity,
said Bradley Smith, acting under secretary for Treasury's terrorism and financial intelligence unit A signal that warns these countries of the consequences if they participate in an attack on our country by various means, not necessarily nuclear,
The German armed forces are ready to become a central pillar of conventional deterrence and defense in Europe,
And to have the chance to talk through what more needs to be done, because these are turning into crucial weeks and months,
Ultimately, the Kremlin knows it is not fighting all of NATO, nor could it afford to. Instead the strategy is to divide, confuse, and disrupt without entering open conflict. Undermining the alliance and paralysing decision making is the intent, with the nuclear factor making this a more charged situation,
the former British army officer said Those would cause many civilian casualties, and NATO may fear that Ukraine will be reckless or seek to widen the conflict and draw NATO in more directly,
The heightened risk of attack over a larger area would force Russian defences to be spread more thinly, necessitate the dispersion of logistics chains into smaller locations and packets for movement, and increase the time that Russian aircraft take for combat sorties,
They [Russia] themselves opened the door to this move,
Russia could counter-escalate in a number of ways, from more brutal attacks on Ukrainian civilian targets to sabotage of Western satellite or undersea communications,
A proposal along these lines would reward Putin’s aggression, allow him to rest, rearm, reinvade Ukraine – as he has done time and again. It would also embolden would-be aggressors everywhere around the world,
Putin, on the other hand, has no interest in such a peace – recently declaring that Russia would return to the negotiating table only when Ukraine withdraws its troops from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia; in other words, when Ukraine withdraws from its own territory,