Nuclear testing would be new. I would not exclude that, and it would be in line with Russia shattering a number of international security arrangements that it has signed up to over the decades during the last couple of years,
The moment of truth has come for the West, whether it desires a full-scale war with Russia."
This would be a dramatic escalation of the conflict,
You shouldn’t forget about this and think about the consequences,
Allowing Ukraine to use Western weaponry, assisted with Western satellite images (and) Western military advisers is something that very closely encroaches on vital Russian interests,
I find that relationship between what the Pentagon is advising the president based on intelligence versus the international pressure to be the really interesting part of the story,
(Putin) is trying to deeply destabilize the international rules-based order that protects us all, not just in every democracy around the world, but in all countries around the world,
What the U.K. and U.S. agree with each other is not for me to judge. It’s up to those who supplied these weapons to decide. International law allows that,
That is a line that I — as chancellor — do not want to cross,
And Putin’s threats are Putin’s threats, that’s all that needs to be said. He threatens whenever he likes and whenever he sees fit,
Putin's war in Ukraine has been a massive failure – hundreds of thousands of casualties, a brain drain, a million Russians have fled, Sweden and Finland are now NATO members, the list goes on,
He makes these threats because he knows they work,
Russia started this conflict. Russia illegally invaded Ukraine. Russia can end this conflict straight away. Ukraine has the right to self-defence.”
It is necessary to take all events in Ukraine and on the Ukrainian-Russian front very seriously, but I would not attach excessive importance to the latest statements from president Putin,
If we learn one lesson in this Russian aggression against Ukraine, it’s that we should not listen to Putin. He has been lying to us all the time,
Putin threatened the west before and he will continue to do so as long as these threats have an impact.”
According to international law, one country is allowed to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity against the aggression of another how it sees fit,
I think that the Russian regime – and especially the president – usually does this when he doesn’t know how to respond – it’s usually just rhetoric,
We see more Russian attacks on civilian Ukrainian infrastructure, more hybrid actions against allies and more drones and missiles entering Nato airspace on the eastern flank – Latvia, Poland, Romania”.
They rather show the difficult situation the Russians have on the front,