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It is obvious that the outgoing administration in Washington intends to take steps, and they have been talking about this, to continue adding fuel to the fire and provoking further escalation of tensions around this conflict,
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
The military value of both weapons is limited by the fact that there are only limited numbers of Atacms and Storm Shadow,
said Matthew Savill, the director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute thinktank
Trump has said he wants to end the war within 24 hours. Nobody is more interested in this topic than Ukraine,
a senior official told the GuardianWe consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against military facilities of those countries that allow to use their weapons against our facilities,
he said, an escalatory threat clearly aimed at Trump in particular, arguing
The frontline is now less stable than at any time since the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion,
warned the British defence secretary, John Healey, on ThursdayFinally, at the end of Biden’s term, the White House is more helpful. But it can’t compensate for delays in previous years,
the official saidBut the problem is, for the moment, everything is just speculation. Will it be the first peace plan, the second plan, the first variant, the 10th variant?”
they saidIf 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,
Peskov said
It seems that this desire, let's say, to muck things up, can be seen in the current situation,
Lavrov added, going on to sayAs for what can be expected from Biden and his outgoing administration, well, the ATACMS supplies and allowing the British and French to use Storm Shadows and SCALPSs certainly have an element of trying to leave as negative a legacy as possible for the next administration,
Lavrov said, ... according to the Russian News AgencyHad self-imposed restrictions been lifted sooner, Ukraine would have made greater advances against the Russians,
Mark Temnycky, a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, explained to BI, arguing
Based on how Russia is responding, the war may be more 'on fire' by Inauguration Day,
he told BIEvery decision's been too late,
Mick Ryan, a retired Australian Army major general and strategist, told BI
He doesn't want his legacy to be stained by the war in Europe,
he said of BidenThe Ukrainians really need to stem this loss of territory, to slow down — if not stop — the Russian advances in the east,
he saidUkraine is only authorized to shoot deeper into Russia to constrain the Russian-North Korean effort to push Ukraine out of the Russian territory,
the aide said
Observing no changes to Russia's nuclear posture, we have not seen any reason to adjust our own nuclear posture or doctrine in response to Russia's statements today,
a U.S. National Security Council spokesperson said
If the long-range missiles are used from the territory of Ukraine against the Russian territory, it will mean that they are controlled by American military experts and we will view that as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia and respond accordingly,
moaned Lavrov at the G-20 in Brazil
We hope that when that time comes, there is more leverage on the Ukrainian side than on the Russian side,
Rubio said in September