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UK may have to deploy troops to defend Europe if Putin gains upper hand, says ex-PM
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British troops may have to be deployed<\/a> in Ukraine<\/a> if American president-elect Donald Trump<\/a> cuts Kyiv\u2019s funding, Boris Johnson<\/a> has warned.
The former prime minister said that if Russian president Vladimir Putin<\/a> gains the upper hand in the conflict<\/a>, the UK may have to deploy troops to defend Europe.
This comes as Russia has suffered record losses for a second consecutive day, Ukraine has claimed, as Vladimir Putin\u2019s forces seek to advance in Donbas and repel Kyiv\u2019s incursion into Kursk<\/a>.
Just 24 hours after Ukraine claimed Russia had suffered a record 1,770 losses<\/a>, Kyiv\u2019s military claimed this grim total had been surpassed by 1,950 casualties on Monday \u2013 which would mark Russia\u2019s worst single day since launching its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
The totals given by Ukraine\u2019s military do not specify between troops killed, wounded or captured. Ukraine now claims to have inflicted a total of 712,610 casualties upon Russia \u2013 which is broadly in line with estimates given by Ukraine\u2019s Western allies. Neither Moscow nor Kyiv provide statistics on their own losses.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed his gratitude to rescue officials in Ukraine responding to daily Russian attacks.
In a post on X, Mr Zelensky said: \u201cNo rescue service has ever faced challenges like those our rescuers, police, medics, and everyone helping them tackle every day\u2014often under fire or under threat of renewed Russian attacks. Every day, there is a necessary and immediate response, no matter the challenges.
\u201cI thank everyone who saves lives after Russian strikes, clears rubble, provides first aid, extinguishes fires, and eliminates the consequences to save people\u2019s lives.\u201d
The European Union must back Ukraine<\/a> against Russia for as a long as it takes and persuade the United States<\/a> that its strategic interests in China<\/a> are tied up in the outcome of the war, the woman nominated as the bloc\u2019s top diplomat for the next five years said Tuesday.
Questions have been raised about whether the 27-nation EU\u2019s commitment to Ukraine would remain firm with Russia appearing to have an edge in the war, which began on Feb. 24, 2022, and following the reelection of Donald Trump<\/a>, who has vowed to end the conflict as U.S. president.
\u201cUkraine\u2019s victory is a priority for us all. The situation on the battlefield is very difficult,\u201d Estonia ex-Prime Minister Kaja Kallas told EU lawmakers during a hearing she must pass to be appointed as foreign policy chief.
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The nominee for the European Union’s next top diplomat says the bloc must commit to Ukraine for the long-haul even as the war’s costs mount
Kaja Kallas, the nominee to be the European Union\u2019s next foreign policy chief, has warned against making assumptions about what US president-elect Donald Trump would do in Ukraine and said isolationism had never worked for the United States.
The former Estonian prime minister told her confirmation hearing in the European Parliament on Tuesday that she did not think anybody knew what Mr Trump would do and that the EU would need to hear directly from his team.
\u201cIf we look to the history, then isolationism has never worked well for America … If America is worried about China, they should first be worried about Russia, and we will have these dialogues with the United States,\u201d Ms Kallas said.
Loud blasts have been heard in Kyiv in the early hours today amid reports on missiles heading for the Ukrainian capital.
\u201cA rocket in Chernihiv region heading for Kyiv region!\u201d the Ukrainian air force said on Telegram. \u201cRocket to Kyiv, take cover immediately,\u201d it said.
\u201cRussia\u2019s winter campaign against Ukraine\u2019s civil energy infrastructure appears to be starting. Some cruise missiles are headed Kyiv\u2019s way,\u201d said Oliver Carroll, a journalist based in Kyiv.
\u201cBallistic missiles reported headed to Kyiv right now. The sound of air defence is very audible in centre of capital,\u201d he said in another tweet.
President-elect Donald Trump<\/a> reportedly advised Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> not to escalate the war in Ukraine in a phone call the day after the presidential election, a report says.
As one of his first orders of unofficial business as the president-elect, Trump spoke with Putin on Thursday in a telephone conversation that he took from his home in Florida, sources familiar with the matter told The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/a>
He allegedly asked the Russian president not to escalate his war and reminded him of the US\u2019s military presence in Europe.
My colleague <\/strong>Ariana Baio<\/em><\/strong> reports:<\/strong>
On the campaign trail, Trump has promised to end the Russia\u2013Ukraine war
The outgoing Biden administration\u2019s top diplomat, Antony Blinken, headed to Brussels on Tuesday for talks with European allies concerned that US president-elect Donald Trump could abandon Ukraine in its war with Russia.
In his first overseas trip since Mr Trump\u2019s election victory, the secretary of state will stop in Brussels ahead of scheduled visits to Peru and Brazil later this week, his department said.
In meetings with Nato and European Union officials, Mr Blinken will \u201cdiscuss support for Ukraine in its defense against Russia\u2019s aggression,\u201d the US State Department said, without elaborating on what message he will deliver.
Ukraine is close to setting up three new joint ventures with European weapons producers in its effort to boost arms output during the war with Russia, the first deputy prime minister said.
Yulia Svyrydenko, who is also the economy minister, said five joint ventures with Western weapon producers had already been set up, including with German and Lithuanian companies. Several arms producers have opened offices in Ukraine.
\u201cWe have three more agreements with European companies in the final stages to set up joint ventures,\u201d Svyrydenko told Reuters in an interview in the government headquarters in central Kyiv.
She gave no details about the planned new ventures or the scale of the investments.
Ukraine\u2019s military industrial production has exploded in size with state and private companies rapidly increasing their production and innovating, as the government has scrambled to respond to Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Massachusetts Air National Guard member to 15 years in prison <\/a>after he pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine<\/a>.
Jack Teixeira<\/a> pleaded guilty earlier this year to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act following his arrest in the most consequential national security case in years.<\/a> He was brought into court in an orange jumpsuit and showed no visible reaction as he was sentenced by US District Judge Indira Talwani.
Earlier in the hearing he apologized before the judge.
Prosecutors had originally requested a 17-year sentence for Teixeira, saying he \u201cperpetrated one of the most significant and consequential violations of the Espionage Act in American history\u201d
Nato chief Mark Rutte has called on Western allies to provide Ukraine with further support \u201cto change the trajectory of the conflict\u201d with Russia.
Speaking ahead of a meeting Tuesday in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron, Rutte said: \u201cWe must do more than just keep Ukraine in the fight.\u201d
He added: \u201cWe need to raise the cost for Putin and his enabling authoritarian friends by providing Ukraine with the support it needs to change the trajectory of the conflict.\u201d
Rutte, who did not provided details about the military equipment and weapons needed for that purpose, said it was \u201cvery concerning\u201d that Russia was getting \u201ccloser to its allies, China, Iran and North Korea.\u201d
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called on Western allies to provide further support to Ukraine \u201cto change the trajectory of the conflict.\u201d
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