We have not seen any reason to adjust our own nuclear posture or doctrine in response to Russia's statements,
They (Russia) are the ones escalating. We are going to continue to support Ukraine as they push back on that aggression,
They are now seeing high casualties, and so now what they're doing is turning to DPRK to supply them soldiers,
He doesn't want his legacy to be stained by the war in Europe,
Had self-imposed restrictions been lifted sooner, Ukraine would have made greater advances against the Russians,
Based on how Russia is responding, the war may be more 'on fire' by Inauguration Day,
Every decision's been too late,
The Ukrainians really need to stem this loss of territory, to slow down — if not stop — the Russian advances in the east,
Ukraine is only authorized to shoot deeper into Russia to constrain the Russian-North Korean effort to push Ukraine out of the Russian territory,
The escalation at every turn and every step is coming from Russia. They're the ones who escalated this,
This makes a significant change and one that we warned the Russians about before they did it,
There will be formal appeals, correspondence, and convening of separate formats to ‘wake up the world’ and draw attention,
We call on the international community, every country and every leader who respects the UN Charter to respond immediately to Russia's use of a new type of weapon, to increase the level of armaments in general, without waiting for expert opinions,
We are also already using UN and NATO mechanisms,
So far, we know that according to flight characteristics, it is an ICBM, but we are waiting for more expert opinions to confirm with specific facts what type of missile it was,
Defence intelligence will reveal today that the frontline is now less stable than at any time since the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion in February 22 and we've seen in recent weeks a very clear escalation from Putin and his forces
We hope that when that time comes, there is more leverage on the Ukrainian side than on the Russian side,
He [Putin] is playing yet again a nuclear gamble with the recently-updated nuclear doctrine of Russia, he enlisted North Korean soldiers to come to European soil, so these are all clear signs of will to escalate, not the will to find ways towards peace,
It's obvious that such attacks would mark yet another clear escalation from the side of Putin. And over the last period of time, we haven't been actually lacking signs of further escalation of the conflict by Putin,
It could happen any minute, any hour,