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US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says he hopes to see the Russian military depleted in Ukraine.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: Mr Austin has now set out clearly that the US has its own strategic goals for this war - even if it's theoretically not participating. Military experts already believe it will take years for Russia to recover from its military losses. The fear, shared by Nato allies, is that any kind of defeat for Ukraine will only embolden President Putin's ambitions. America has dramatically increased the supply of weapons to Ukraine in recent weeks. He's long portrayed Nato as a threat to Russia. "The strategy that we've put in place, massive support for Ukraine, massive pressure against Russia, solidarity with more than 30 countries engaged in these efforts, is having real results," Mr Blinken said. Mr Blinken announced some US diplomatic staff would start to return to Ukraine from next week. America wants to see Russia defeated. Mr Austin's words underline that America is not a bystander in this war. To some extent that's already happened. At a news conference in Poland after the visit, Mr Austin told reporters the US wants to see "Russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine".

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“He uses the ‘N word’, the nuclear word all the time. “He uses it on a daily basis. Trump said the “stupid war” in Ukraine was also proof he was vindicated in his fierce criticism of former German chancellor Angela Merkel while the pair were in office. “He [Putin] said, ‘Hey, this is no longer Trump’.” The first arose from Trump’s threats to hold back aid to Ukraine while pressuring then newly elected president Volodymyr Zelensky to announce investigations into Biden and his son Hunter, who had served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. “What I did say is that we are going to be very strongly responding if you do that.

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“He uses the ‘N word’, the nuclear word all the time. “He uses it on a daily basis. Trump said the “stupid war” in Ukraine was also proof he was vindicated in his fierce criticism of former German chancellor Angela Merkel while the pair were in office. “He [Putin] said, ‘Hey, this is no longer Trump’.” The first arose from Trump’s threats to hold back aid to Ukraine while pressuring then newly elected president Volodymyr Zelensky to announce investigations into Biden and his son Hunter, who had served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. “What I did say is that we are going to be very strongly responding if you do that.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Western weapons sent to Ukraine 'will be a legitimate target' for Russia's military.

“Ukraine is ready for peace … But in order to make Russia seek peace, every Ukrainian man and woman must fight, must defend freedom. “They need continued support in order to be successful on the battlefield. “This will close any existing loopholes to ensure that Russia is not buying these goods from the UK,” the statement added. “Storage facilities in western Ukraine have been targeted more than once [by Russian forces]. How can it be otherwise?” he said. “This is our key position on which we base everything. “The Sumy region was shelled four times from Russian territory. “Two enemy attacks in the Kherson region were repulsed by our units with the destruction of a tank and an infantry fighting vehicle. And that’s really the purpose of this conference.” “But they did not achieve anything. They mined our land. They tortured, robbed, executed. “In two months, they used more than 1100 missiles against us.

Moscow will be the first stop this week for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, who will then visit Kyiv. Ukraine has asked Mr. Guterres to guarantee a ...