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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2024 3:39:53 GMT
CNN — Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that NATO allowing Ukraine to use longer-range missiles to strike inside his country would be seen by Moscow as the bloc’s direct entry into the war.
Putin’s comments come as US and Western diplomats appear increasingly open to the possibility of lifting restrictions on Ukraine’s use of US-provided long-range weapons systems, which Kyiv has openly pressed for, more than two years into Russia’s invasion.
“This will mean that NATO countries – the United States and European countries – are at war with Russia,” Putin told reporters on Thursday.
“And if this is the case, then, bearing in mind the change in the essence of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions in response to the threats that will be posed to us,” Putin added.
Although the US has shifted its policy to allow limited cross-border strikes into Russia using US-provided weapons, President Joe Biden’s administration has yet to allow longer-range strikes.
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2024 11:28:30 GMT
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Ukraine’s leaders have insisted that Russia needs to be driven out of all Ukrainian territory before any peace talks could begin.
Now, with Russia continuing to make slow gains on the battlefield and Western support for Ukraine showing signs of fatigue, Ukraine may need to come up with a more realistic plan, at least for the next year of the war, according to European diplomats.
The West still backs Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s long-term stated aim of taking back control of its territory. But some European diplomats say Ukraine needs to be more pragmatic in its wartime aims and strategy.
That could help Western officials advocate to their respective voters the need to funnel arms and aid to the country.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy will travel to Ukraine on Wednesday to meet with Ukrainian officials in part to discuss how best to define a Ukrainian victory and what aid it will need to achieve that, according to officials.
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2024 19:00:23 GMT
WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - U.S. National Security Advisor Kirby said on Wednesday that there is no change in U.S. policy regarding the use of long-range missiles it provides to Ukraine, and no new announcements are planned.
Ukraine has requested that restrictions on the use of long-range missiles provided by Western countries be lifted within Russian territory, but Russia has warned that if approved, it would deepen direct involvement in the West's war.
"There is no change in our view regarding long-range strike capabilities that Ukraine can use within Russian territory," Kirby told reporters.
Although he takes seriously Russian President Vladimir Putin's warning that if Ukraine fires long-range missiles provided by Western countries toward Russia, the West will be seen as directly involved in the conflict, but Putin's views are a novelty.
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Post by Admin on Sept 15, 2024 22:40:54 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 16, 2024 6:55:03 GMT
Routh also used his personal Facebook account last year to encourage foreigners to fight in the war.
It has also emerged Routh wrote a book about the conflict where he described how he "gave up and quit", a decision he says makes him "the worst of humans".
The book, called Ukraine's Unwinnable War, was previously on sale on Amazon for £2.25.
He writes: "I am the failure, the hypocrite that wants the world to change but let communism beat me down and exhaust me and send me home.
"A mere 5 months and I run for home, not even with the first bit of mud, or cold, or the first bullet, and I am beaten and exhausted in the simplest elementary ground floor challenges of good and evil, and I fail."
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