Russia official warns countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risk their own destruction

[beijingwalker]

Russia official warns countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risk their own destruction​

PUBLISHED SUN, JAN 22 202312:15 PM EST

KEY POINTS

• The speaker of Russia’s parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction.
• The message followed new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment but not the battle tanks Kyiv requested.
• Ukraine’s supporters pledged billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine on Friday.

The speaker of Russia’s parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction, a message that followed new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment but not the battle tanks Kyiv requested.

“Supplies of offensive weapons to the Kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe,” State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said. “If Washington and NATO supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.”

Ukraine’s supporters pledged billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine on Friday, though the new commitments were overshadowed by defense leaders failing at an international meeting in Ramstein, Germany, to agree on Ukraine’s urgent request for German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks.

Germany is one of the main donors of weapons to Ukraine, and it ordered a review of its Leopard 2 stocks in preparation for a possible green light. Nonetheless, the government in Berlin has shown caution at each step of increasing its commitments to Ukraine, a hesitancy seen as rooted in its history and political culture.

Its tentativeness has drawn heavy criticism, particularly from Poland and the Baltic states, countries on NATO’s eastern flank controlled by Moscow in the past and which feel especially threatened by Russia’s renewed imperial ambitions.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that if Germany does not consent to transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine, his country was prepared to build a “smaller coalition” of countries that would send theirs anyway.

“Almost a year had passed since the outbreak of war,” Morawiecki said in an interview with Polish state news agency PAP published Sunday. “Evidence of the Russian army’s war crimes can be seen on television and on YouTube. What more does Germany need to open its eyes and start to act in line with the potential of the German state?”

“Above all, Berlin should not weaken or sabotage the activities of other countries,” Morawiecki said.

In Washington, two leading lawmakers urged the U.S. on Sunday to send some of its Abrams tanks to Ukraine, in the interest of overcoming Germany’s reluctance to share its own, more suitable Leopard 2 tanks.

“If we announced we were giving an Abrams tank, just one, that would unleash” the flow of tanks from Germany, Rep. Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told ABC’s “This Week on Sunday.” “What I hear is that Germany’s waiting on us to take the lead.”

Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat who is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and considered close to President Joe Biden, also spoke up for the U.S. sending Abrams.

“I am concerned that Russia is rearming and preparing for a spring offensive,” Coons, said. “If it requires our sending some Abrams tanks in order to unlock getting the Leopard tanks from Germany, from Poland, from other allies, I would support that.”

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of the Russian Security Council, said the meeting in Ramstein “left no doubt that our enemies will try to exhaust or better destroy us,” adding that “they have enough weapons” to achieve the purpose.

Medvedev, a former Russian president, warned on his messaging app channel that Russia could seek to form a military alliance with foes of the United States. He didn’t name the nations he had in mind, but Russia has defense cooperation with Iran and Venezuela, an existing military alliance with Belarus and strong ties with North Korea.. Since invading Ukraine, Russia also has increased both the scope and the number of its joint military drills with China.

“In case of a protracted conflict, a new military alliance will emerge that will include the nations that are fed up with the Americans and a pack of their castrated dogs,” Medvedev said.

Ukraine is asking for more weapons as it anticipates Russia’s forces launching a new offensive in the spring.

Oleksii Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council, warned that Russia may try to intensify its attacks in the south and in the east and to cut supply channels of Western weapons, while conquering Kyiv “remains the main dream” in President Vladimir Putin’s “fantasies,” he said.

He described the Kremlin’s goal in the conflict as a “total and absolute genocide, a total war of destruction.”

“Moscow wants to completely destroy Ukraine as a historical phenomenon — its language, history, culture, carriers of Ukrainian identity,” Danilov wrote in a column published by Ukrainska Pravda.

Among those calling for more arms for Ukraine was the former British prime minister, Boris Johnson, who made a surprise trip to Ukraine on Sunday.

“This is the moment to double down and to give the Ukrainians all the tools they need to finish the job. The sooner Putin fails, the better for Ukraine and for the whole world,” Johnson said in a statement.

Johnson, who faces fresh questions at home over his personal finances, was pictured in the Kyiv region town of Borodyanka. He said he traveled to Ukraine at the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The last week was especially tragic for Ukraine even by the standards of a brutal war that has gone on for nearly a year, killing tens of thousands of people, uprooting millions more and creating vast destruction of Ukrainian cities.

A barrage of Russian missiles struck an apartment complex in the southeastern city of Dnipro on Jan. 14, killing at least 45 civilians, including six children. On Wednesday, a government helicopter carrying the interior minister and other officials crashed into a building housing a kindergarten in a suburb of Kyiv. The minister and a child on the ground were among the 14 people killed.

Zelenskyy, who on Saturday mourned the victims of the helicopter crash, vowed Sunday that Ukraine would prevail in the war.

“We are united because we are strong. We are strong because we are united,” the Ukrainian leader said in a video address as he marked Ukraine Unity Day, which commemorates the day in 1919 when East and West Ukraine were united.

“Dear invincible people, Happy Ukrainian Unity Day!” he said.

Russia official warns countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risk their own destruction

The speaker of Russia's parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction.

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[khansaheeb]

Russia official warns countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risk their own destruction​

PUBLISHED SUN, JAN 22 202312:15 PM EST

KEY POINTS

• The speaker of Russia’s parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction.
• The message followed new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment but not the battle tanks Kyiv requested.
• Ukraine’s supporters pledged billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine on Friday.

The speaker of Russia’s parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction, a message that followed new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment but not the battle tanks Kyiv requested.

“Supplies of offensive weapons to the Kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe,” State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said. “If Washington and NATO supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.”

Ukraine’s supporters pledged billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine on Friday, though the new commitments were overshadowed by defense leaders failing at an international meeting in Ramstein, Germany, to agree on Ukraine’s urgent request for German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks.

Germany is one of the main donors of weapons to Ukraine, and it ordered a review of its Leopard 2 stocks in preparation for a possible green light. Nonetheless, the government in Berlin has shown caution at each step of increasing its commitments to Ukraine, a hesitancy seen as rooted in its history and political culture.

Its tentativeness has drawn heavy criticism, particularly from Poland and the Baltic states, countries on NATO’s eastern flank controlled by Moscow in the past and which feel especially threatened by Russia’s renewed imperial ambitions.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that if Germany does not consent to transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine, his country was prepared to build a “smaller coalition” of countries that would send theirs anyway.

“Almost a year had passed since the outbreak of war,” Morawiecki said in an interview with Polish state news agency PAP published Sunday. “Evidence of the Russian army’s war crimes can be seen on television and on YouTube. What more does Germany need to open its eyes and start to act in line with the potential of the German state?”

“Above all, Berlin should not weaken or sabotage the activities of other countries,” Morawiecki said.

In Washington, two leading lawmakers urged the U.S. on Sunday to send some of its Abrams tanks to Ukraine, in the interest of overcoming Germany’s reluctance to share its own, more suitable Leopard 2 tanks.

“If we announced we were giving an Abrams tank, just one, that would unleash” the flow of tanks from Germany, Rep. Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told ABC’s “This Week on Sunday.” “What I hear is that Germany’s waiting on us to take the lead.”

Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat who is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and considered close to President Joe Biden, also spoke up for the U.S. sending Abrams.

“I am concerned that Russia is rearming and preparing for a spring offensive,” Coons, said. “If it requires our sending some Abrams tanks in order to unlock getting the Leopard tanks from Germany, from Poland, from other allies, I would support that.”

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of the Russian Security Council, said the meeting in Ramstein “left no doubt that our enemies will try to exhaust or better destroy us,” adding that “they have enough weapons” to achieve the purpose.

Medvedev, a former Russian president, warned on his messaging app channel that Russia could seek to form a military alliance with foes of the United States. He didn’t name the nations he had in mind, but Russia has defense cooperation with Iran and Venezuela, an existing military alliance with Belarus and strong ties with North Korea.. Since invading Ukraine, Russia also has increased both the scope and the number of its joint military drills with China.

“In case of a protracted conflict, a new military alliance will emerge that will include the nations that are fed up with the Americans and a pack of their castrated dogs,” Medvedev said.

Ukraine is asking for more weapons as it anticipates Russia’s forces launching a new offensive in the spring.

Oleksii Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council, warned that Russia may try to intensify its attacks in the south and in the east and to cut supply channels of Western weapons, while conquering Kyiv “remains the main dream” in President Vladimir Putin’s “fantasies,” he said.

He described the Kremlin’s goal in the conflict as a “total and absolute genocide, a total war of destruction.”

“Moscow wants to completely destroy Ukraine as a historical phenomenon — its language, history, culture, carriers of Ukrainian identity,” Danilov wrote in a column published by Ukrainska Pravda.

Among those calling for more arms for Ukraine was the former British prime minister, Boris Johnson, who made a surprise trip to Ukraine on Sunday.

“This is the moment to double down and to give the Ukrainians all the tools they need to finish the job. The sooner Putin fails, the better for Ukraine and for the whole world,” Johnson said in a statement.

Johnson, who faces fresh questions at home over his personal finances, was pictured in the Kyiv region town of Borodyanka. He said he traveled to Ukraine at the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The last week was especially tragic for Ukraine even by the standards of a brutal war that has gone on for nearly a year, killing tens of thousands of people, uprooting millions more and creating vast destruction of Ukrainian cities.

A barrage of Russian missiles struck an apartment complex in the southeastern city of Dnipro on Jan. 14, killing at least 45 civilians, including six children. On Wednesday, a government helicopter carrying the interior minister and other officials crashed into a building housing a kindergarten in a suburb of Kyiv. The minister and a child on the ground were among the 14 people killed.

Zelenskyy, who on Saturday mourned the victims of the helicopter crash, vowed Sunday that Ukraine would prevail in the war.

“We are united because we are strong. We are strong because we are united,” the Ukrainian leader said in a video address as he marked Ukraine Unity Day, which commemorates the day in 1919 when East and West Ukraine were united.

“Dear invincible people, Happy Ukrainian Unity Day!” he said.

Russia official warns countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risk their own destruction

The speaker of Russia's parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction.

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Seems like NATO's article 4 has been invoked in a camouflaged way. Why the West is pushing Russia to go ballistic is beyond understanding. We have seen Russians implement threats and the civilised world is just not getting the message. Neocons are pushing the world to a disaster and no one is there to check them. The UN security council is a failed structure and the power must given to the UN main body to enforce peace and peaceful settlement of disputes.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

Russia official warns countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risk their own destruction​

PUBLISHED SUN, JAN 22 202312:15 PM EST

KEY POINTS

• The speaker of Russia’s parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction.
• The message followed new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment but not the battle tanks Kyiv requested.
• Ukraine’s supporters pledged billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine on Friday.

The speaker of Russia’s parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction, a message that followed new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment but not the battle tanks Kyiv requested.

“Supplies of offensive weapons to the Kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe,” State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said. “If Washington and NATO supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.”

Ukraine’s supporters pledged billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine on Friday, though the new commitments were overshadowed by defense leaders failing at an international meeting in Ramstein, Germany, to agree on Ukraine’s urgent request for German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks.

Germany is one of the main donors of weapons to Ukraine, and it ordered a review of its Leopard 2 stocks in preparation for a possible green light. Nonetheless, the government in Berlin has shown caution at each step of increasing its commitments to Ukraine, a hesitancy seen as rooted in its history and political culture.

Its tentativeness has drawn heavy criticism, particularly from Poland and the Baltic states, countries on NATO’s eastern flank controlled by Moscow in the past and which feel especially threatened by Russia’s renewed imperial ambitions.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that if Germany does not consent to transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine, his country was prepared to build a “smaller coalition” of countries that would send theirs anyway.

“Almost a year had passed since the outbreak of war,” Morawiecki said in an interview with Polish state news agency PAP published Sunday. “Evidence of the Russian army’s war crimes can be seen on television and on YouTube. What more does Germany need to open its eyes and start to act in line with the potential of the German state?”

“Above all, Berlin should not weaken or sabotage the activities of other countries,” Morawiecki said.

In Washington, two leading lawmakers urged the U.S. on Sunday to send some of its Abrams tanks to Ukraine, in the interest of overcoming Germany’s reluctance to share its own, more suitable Leopard 2 tanks.

“If we announced we were giving an Abrams tank, just one, that would unleash” the flow of tanks from Germany, Rep. Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told ABC’s “This Week on Sunday.” “What I hear is that Germany’s waiting on us to take the lead.”

Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat who is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and considered close to President Joe Biden, also spoke up for the U.S. sending Abrams.

“I am concerned that Russia is rearming and preparing for a spring offensive,” Coons, said. “If it requires our sending some Abrams tanks in order to unlock getting the Leopard tanks from Germany, from Poland, from other allies, I would support that.”

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of the Russian Security Council, said the meeting in Ramstein “left no doubt that our enemies will try to exhaust or better destroy us,” adding that “they have enough weapons” to achieve the purpose.

Medvedev, a former Russian president, warned on his messaging app channel that Russia could seek to form a military alliance with foes of the United States. He didn’t name the nations he had in mind, but Russia has defense cooperation with Iran and Venezuela, an existing military alliance with Belarus and strong ties with North Korea.. Since invading Ukraine, Russia also has increased both the scope and the number of its joint military drills with China.

“In case of a protracted conflict, a new military alliance will emerge that will include the nations that are fed up with the Americans and a pack of their castrated dogs,” Medvedev said.

Ukraine is asking for more weapons as it anticipates Russia’s forces launching a new offensive in the spring.

Oleksii Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council, warned that Russia may try to intensify its attacks in the south and in the east and to cut supply channels of Western weapons, while conquering Kyiv “remains the main dream” in President Vladimir Putin’s “fantasies,” he said.

He described the Kremlin’s goal in the conflict as a “total and absolute genocide, a total war of destruction.”

“Moscow wants to completely destroy Ukraine as a historical phenomenon — its language, history, culture, carriers of Ukrainian identity,” Danilov wrote in a column published by Ukrainska Pravda.

Among those calling for more arms for Ukraine was the former British prime minister, Boris Johnson, who made a surprise trip to Ukraine on Sunday.

“This is the moment to double down and to give the Ukrainians all the tools they need to finish the job. The sooner Putin fails, the better for Ukraine and for the whole world,” Johnson said in a statement.

Johnson, who faces fresh questions at home over his personal finances, was pictured in the Kyiv region town of Borodyanka. He said he traveled to Ukraine at the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The last week was especially tragic for Ukraine even by the standards of a brutal war that has gone on for nearly a year, killing tens of thousands of people, uprooting millions more and creating vast destruction of Ukrainian cities.

A barrage of Russian missiles struck an apartment complex in the southeastern city of Dnipro on Jan. 14, killing at least 45 civilians, including six children. On Wednesday, a government helicopter carrying the interior minister and other officials crashed into a building housing a kindergarten in a suburb of Kyiv. The minister and a child on the ground were among the 14 people killed.

Zelenskyy, who on Saturday mourned the victims of the helicopter crash, vowed Sunday that Ukraine would prevail in the war.

“We are united because we are strong. We are strong because we are united,” the Ukrainian leader said in a video address as he marked Ukraine Unity Day, which commemorates the day in 1919 when East and West Ukraine were united.

“Dear invincible people, Happy Ukrainian Unity Day!” he said.

Russia official warns countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risk their own destruction

The speaker of Russia's parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction.

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This is great news.

Once NATO balkanizes Russia, China will get back Eastern Russia.

Also, Most of the Indian weapons which are of Russian origin would become obsolete and China & Pakistan can balkanize India too.

China gets her five fingers of Tibet while Pakistan can restore Mughal empire.

 

[Trisolaran]

This is great news.

Once NATO balkanizes Russia, China will get back Eastern Russia.

Also, Most of the Indian weapons which are of Russian origin would become obsolete and China & Pakistan can balkanize India too.

China gets her five fingers of Tibet while Pakistan can restore Mughal empire.

West will try to balance China with India

 

[SecularNationalist]

The supply won't even make a dent on Russia.
UK at maximum will send 15 challenger tanks to Ukraine, what difference those 15 tanks gonna make overall?
Russia has a quantitative advantage here.Russia is full of resources and is fully independent in this regard. From mining a metal to building a final tank everything is done inside Russia's borders and then simply is sent on a eastern Ukraine frontline. In this way they can fight for a long long time.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

West will try to balance China with India

West prefers China over Russia and Pakistan over India.

 

[khansaheeb]

The supply won't even make a dent on Russia.
UK at maximum will send 15 challenger tanks to Ukraine, what difference those 15 tanks gonna make overall?
Russia has a quantitative advantage here.Russia is full of resources and is fully independent in this regard. From mining a metal to building a final tank everything is done inside Russia's borders and then simply is sent on a eastern Ukraine frontline. In this way they can fight for a long long time.

Main question is how long will 100 tanks last on the Ukrainian battlefield? With the firepower both Russia and Ukraine are unleashing not long. So Ukrainian debt is rising and the territory under control remains the same.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

Main question is how long will 100 tanks last on the Ukrainian battlefield? With the firepower both Russia and Ukraine are unleashing not long. So Ukrainian debt is rising and the territory under control remains the same.

Ukraine is just a tool of NATO.

What is impotant is balkanization of Russia.

If Ukraine will survive or perish in this process is irrelevent.

 

[PakFactor]

Russia official warns countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risk their own destruction​

PUBLISHED SUN, JAN 22 202312:15 PM EST

KEY POINTS

• The speaker of Russia’s parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction.
• The message followed new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment but not the battle tanks Kyiv requested.
• Ukraine’s supporters pledged billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine on Friday.

The speaker of Russia’s parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction, a message that followed new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment but not the battle tanks Kyiv requested.

“Supplies of offensive weapons to the Kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe,” State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said. “If Washington and NATO supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.”

Ukraine’s supporters pledged billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine on Friday, though the new commitments were overshadowed by defense leaders failing at an international meeting in Ramstein, Germany, to agree on Ukraine’s urgent request for German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks.

Germany is one of the main donors of weapons to Ukraine, and it ordered a review of its Leopard 2 stocks in preparation for a possible green light. Nonetheless, the government in Berlin has shown caution at each step of increasing its commitments to Ukraine, a hesitancy seen as rooted in its history and political culture.

Its tentativeness has drawn heavy criticism, particularly from Poland and the Baltic states, countries on NATO’s eastern flank controlled by Moscow in the past and which feel especially threatened by Russia’s renewed imperial ambitions.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that if Germany does not consent to transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine, his country was prepared to build a “smaller coalition” of countries that would send theirs anyway.

“Almost a year had passed since the outbreak of war,” Morawiecki said in an interview with Polish state news agency PAP published Sunday. “Evidence of the Russian army’s war crimes can be seen on television and on YouTube. What more does Germany need to open its eyes and start to act in line with the potential of the German state?”

“Above all, Berlin should not weaken or sabotage the activities of other countries,” Morawiecki said.

In Washington, two leading lawmakers urged the U.S. on Sunday to send some of its Abrams tanks to Ukraine, in the interest of overcoming Germany’s reluctance to share its own, more suitable Leopard 2 tanks.

“If we announced we were giving an Abrams tank, just one, that would unleash” the flow of tanks from Germany, Rep. Michael McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told ABC’s “This Week on Sunday.” “What I hear is that Germany’s waiting on us to take the lead.”

Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat who is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and considered close to President Joe Biden, also spoke up for the U.S. sending Abrams.

“I am concerned that Russia is rearming and preparing for a spring offensive,” Coons, said. “If it requires our sending some Abrams tanks in order to unlock getting the Leopard tanks from Germany, from Poland, from other allies, I would support that.”

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of the Russian Security Council, said the meeting in Ramstein “left no doubt that our enemies will try to exhaust or better destroy us,” adding that “they have enough weapons” to achieve the purpose.

Medvedev, a former Russian president, warned on his messaging app channel that Russia could seek to form a military alliance with foes of the United States. He didn’t name the nations he had in mind, but Russia has defense cooperation with Iran and Venezuela, an existing military alliance with Belarus and strong ties with North Korea.. Since invading Ukraine, Russia also has increased both the scope and the number of its joint military drills with China.

“In case of a protracted conflict, a new military alliance will emerge that will include the nations that are fed up with the Americans and a pack of their castrated dogs,” Medvedev said.

Ukraine is asking for more weapons as it anticipates Russia’s forces launching a new offensive in the spring.

Oleksii Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council, warned that Russia may try to intensify its attacks in the south and in the east and to cut supply channels of Western weapons, while conquering Kyiv “remains the main dream” in President Vladimir Putin’s “fantasies,” he said.

He described the Kremlin’s goal in the conflict as a “total and absolute genocide, a total war of destruction.”

“Moscow wants to completely destroy Ukraine as a historical phenomenon — its language, history, culture, carriers of Ukrainian identity,” Danilov wrote in a column published by Ukrainska Pravda.

Among those calling for more arms for Ukraine was the former British prime minister, Boris Johnson, who made a surprise trip to Ukraine on Sunday.

“This is the moment to double down and to give the Ukrainians all the tools they need to finish the job. The sooner Putin fails, the better for Ukraine and for the whole world,” Johnson said in a statement.

Johnson, who faces fresh questions at home over his personal finances, was pictured in the Kyiv region town of Borodyanka. He said he traveled to Ukraine at the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The last week was especially tragic for Ukraine even by the standards of a brutal war that has gone on for nearly a year, killing tens of thousands of people, uprooting millions more and creating vast destruction of Ukrainian cities.

A barrage of Russian missiles struck an apartment complex in the southeastern city of Dnipro on Jan. 14, killing at least 45 civilians, including six children. On Wednesday, a government helicopter carrying the interior minister and other officials crashed into a building housing a kindergarten in a suburb of Kyiv. The minister and a child on the ground were among the 14 people killed.

Zelenskyy, who on Saturday mourned the victims of the helicopter crash, vowed Sunday that Ukraine would prevail in the war.

“We are united because we are strong. We are strong because we are united,” the Ukrainian leader said in a video address as he marked Ukraine Unity Day, which commemorates the day in 1919 when East and West Ukraine were united.

“Dear invincible people, Happy Ukrainian Unity Day!” he said.

Russia official warns countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risk their own destruction

The speaker of Russia's parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction.

www.cnbc.com

The west has been supplying for over a year, and nothing; even the Russians know they are useless and almost near depleting.

 

[ThunderCat]

How will these empty threats play out? NATO supplied weapons have devastated them in Ukraine and so what will they achieve by fighting NATO directly?

A combined NATO force with the same weapons will hurt them even more.

The supply won't even make a dent on Russia.
UK at maximum will send 15 challenger tanks to Ukraine, what difference those 15 tanks gonna make overall?
Russia has a quantitative advantage here.Russia is full of resources and is fully independent in this regard. From mining a metal to building a final tank everything is done inside Russia's borders and then simply is sent on a eastern Ukraine frontline. In this way they can fight for a long long time.

True but how long? They've suffered severe losses. Their economy has been crippled by both sanctions and war losses.

And how much of their massive but finite resources are they willing to sacrifice to this single war? Not to mention the human casualties.

If anything this war allowed NATO to inflict severe damage on the Russian Federation without suffering a single casualty. Never mind those non-official volunteers from NATO countries. They don't count.

 

[Goritoes]

The west has been supplying for over a year, and nothing; even the Russians know they are useless and almost near depleting.

They have exhausted all options they have but West is still providing weapons to Ukraine, in fact Germany/America is having meetings over sending Tanks to Ukraine openly, what else Russia can do ? Go Nuclear ? Well than we all will die, at this point the world stop taking Russians and Chinese threats seriously cause they are all talk no substance.

 

[Catalystic]

The chances of big loaded missiles are now wide open, just a matter of time.
It is not looking good for europe.
By following orders of usa, they’re axing their own foot.
Dark times ahead for entire europe…..Putin won’t be soft on you.

 

[khansaheeb]

They have exhausted all options they have but West is still providing weapons to Ukraine, in fact Germany/America is having meetings over sending Tanks to Ukraine openly, what else Russia can do ? Go Nuclear ? Well than we all will die, at this point the world stop taking Russians and Chinese threats seriously cause they are all talk no substance.

Why would anyone want to get incinerated over Ukraine? Ukraine chose to fight the war with Russia and refused to make concessions with Russia so let them pay the price. They still have the opportunity to negotiate peace but don't. It is plain to see that the Russians aren't going to back down and are willing to raise the stakes higher. Why other countries want to get involved is beyond stupid. As always fear and greed are the key components and these need to be addressed.

Bombs and bigger bombs should have been abandoned after WW2 but the victors continued to make them for world domination and have led us to the precipice we are at today on the eve of global destruction. The whole world needs to stop what they are doing and focus on and stop this madness now.

 

[PakFactor]

They have exhausted all options they have but West is still providing weapons to Ukraine, in fact Germany/America is having meetings over sending Tanks to Ukraine openly, what else Russia can do ? Go Nuclear ? Well than we all will die, at this point the world stop taking Russians and Chinese threats seriously cause they are all talk no substance.

That is why either China supports Russia and vice versa and calls the Wests bluff. Because, at this point, they look full of hot air.

This shows them as unreliable to any “potential” future ally regardless of whether China agreed or not with the Russian invasion decision.

China could have used this conflict to keep occupied Europeans and the US in Europe, allowing the Euros to kill themselves.

 

[Abid123]

That is why either China supports Russia and vice versa and calls the Wests bluff. Because, at this point, they look full of hot air.

This shows them as unreliable to any “potential” future ally regardless of whether China agreed or not with the Russian invasion decision.

China could have used this conflict to keep occupied Europeans and the US in Europe, allowing the Euros to kill themselves.

Iran and North Korea seem to have more balls at this point.