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Ukraine crosses grim mark of 1,000 days of Russian invasion today
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A furious Russia<\/a> has vowed to respond to president Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s decision to let Ukraine<\/a> strike targets inside Russia with US<\/a>-supplied longer-range missiles, saying Washington<\/a> is adding \u201cfuel to the fire\u201d of the war as it clocked its 1,000th day today.
\u201cIt 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,\u201d spokesperson Dmitry Peskov<\/a> said.
Mr Peskov referred journalists to Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u2019s previous remarks where the Russian president said such a move \u201cwill mean Nato countries \u2013 the US and European countries \u2013 are at war with Russia\u201d.
This comes as Kyiv<\/a> crossed the grim mark of 1,000 days of war today since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion, with weary troops battling on numerous fronts, Ukrainian cities besieged by frequent drone and missile strikes, and officials preparing for Donald Trump<\/a> to reclaim the White House in January.
Military losses have been catastrophic, although they remain closely guarded secrets. Public Western estimates based on intelligence reports vary widely, but most say hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded on each side.
What took you so long, Joe?\u201d President Biden\u2019s belated decision to allow Ukrainian armed forces to deploy a key US-supplied missile system<\/a> deeper into Russian territory will be a welcome boost to morale in Kyiv, as well as being of some material help.
It should also prompt the British and French to follow suit and to generally encourage other allies to boost their support for Ukraine<\/a>.
However, it is painful to reflect on how much more effective this change in tactics would have been had the move been made, say, a year or two ago. In hindsight, President Vladimir Putin\u2019s veiled threats about escalation<\/a> proved to be empty \u2013 and now no one thinks he\u2019s about to bomb New York, Paris or London in revenge for the West giving the Ukrainians more firepower.
As it is, in the dying days of the Biden administration, it seems unlikely to be the kind of \u201cgame changer\u201d that President Zelensky<\/a> and his long-suffering people have been virtually begging from the West since the earliest days of this conflict.
Editorial: The US president sends a signal on his way out and although President-Elect Trump has a distaste for America\u2019s involvement in the Ukraine war, that doesn\u2019t mean he will bow down to Putin
Ukraine\u2019s Nato allies have welcomed the green lighting move by Joe Biden to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with US-supplied longer-range missiles.
President Andrzej Duda of Poland, which borders Ukraine, praised the decision as a \u201cvery important, maybe even a breakthrough moment\u201d in the war.
\u201cIn the recent days, we have seen the decisive intensification of Russian attacks on Ukraine, above all, those missile attacks where civilian objects are attacked, where people are killed, ordinary Ukrainians,\u201d Mr Duda said.
Easing restrictions on Ukraine was \u201ca good thing,\u201d said foreign minister Margus Tsahkna of Russian neighbor Estonia.
\u201cWe have been saying that from the beginning \u2014 that no restrictions must be put on the military support,\u201d he told senior European Union diplomats in Brussels. \u201cAnd we need to understand that situation is more serious (than) it was even maybe like a couple of months ago.\u201d
But Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico, known for his pro-Russian views, described Biden\u2019s decision as \u201can unprecedented escalation\u201d that would prolong the war.
Joe Biden has sensationally granted Kyiv permission to use \u201clong-range \u201c missiles to strike targets deep within Russia, <\/a>despite Vladimir Putin<\/a> describing such a move as an act of war.
The weapons<\/a> are likely to be used in response to North Korea\u2019s decision to send thousands of troops to Russia in support of President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and comes after months of pressure from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>
He argued the US ban had made it impossible for Ukraine<\/a> to try to stop Russian attacks on its cities and electrical grids.
We look closer at the weapons that could mark a turning point in the war.
Should Putin be afraid of Kyiv using Army Tactical Missile System rockets?
Chinese and Russian foreign ministers discussed bilateral ties, the conflict in Ukraine, and the situation on the Korean peninsula on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Brazil, they said today.
\u201cWe are truly at an unprecedented stage in the development of our strategic relations of a comprehensive partnership,\u201d Russia\u2019s Sergei Lavrov told China\u2019s Wang Yi, according to a post on the Russian foreign ministry\u2019s Telegram channel.
Mr Wang said Beijing is willing to work with Russia to further strengthen bilateral \u201ccomprehensive strategic coordination\u201d, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.
The \u201ctwo sides also exchanged views on the Ukraine crisis and the situation on the Korean Peninsula\u201d, it added without providing further details.
China and Russia have held a series of bilateral meetings since Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine 1,000 days ago. The war isolated Moscow from Kyiv\u2019s Western allies, bringing waves of sanctions on its politicians and businesses, but pushed it closer to China.
Russia is ready to normalise its relations with the United States, but will not \u201ctango alone\u201d, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told TASS state news agency in remarks published today.
\u201cRussia, as our president has said, is open to normalisation,\u201d TASS cited Mr Peskov, a close aide of Vladimir Putin, as saying. \u201cBut we cannot tango alone. And we are not going to do it.\u201d
Joe Biden\u2019s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with US-made long-range missiles is an \u201cescalation\u201d of the conflict, Moscow said on Monday as it warned use of the weapons would trigger a \u201ctangible\u201d response.
The Kremlin reacted with fury after the US president eased limits on what targets Kyiv can strike using the American-made Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS.
My colleague <\/em>Alastair Jamieson <\/em><\/strong>has the full report:<\/em>
Starmer promises to \u2018double down\u2019 as he faces pressure to follow suit with British weapons
The Kremlin warned that president Joe Biden\u2019s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with US-supplied longer-range missiles adds \u201cfuel to the fire\u201d of the war and would escalate international tensions even higher.
The Kremlin was swift in its condemnation. \u201cIt 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,\u201d spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
Mr Peskov claimed that Western countries supplying longer-range weapons also provide targeting services to Kyiv. \u201cThis fundamentally changes the modality of their involvement in the conflict,\u201d he said.
Mr Peskov referred journalists to a statement from president Vladimir Putin in September in which he said allowing Ukraine to target Russia would significantly raise the stakes. It would change \u201cthe very nature of the conflict dramatically,\u201d Mr Putin said at the time. \u201cThis will mean that Nato countries \u2014 the United States and European countries \u2014 are at war with Russia.\u201d
The US will announce additional security assistance for Ukraine in coming days, the US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said as the United Nations marked 1,000 days since Russia\u2019s invasion of the country.
Ms Thomas-Greenfield said supporting Ukraine in the US Congress and beyond could not and should not be a partisan issue, and that standing up for democracy and human rights was \u201cabove petty politics\u201d and would outlast any one leader.
Ukraine marked 1,000 days today since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion, with weary troops battling on numerous fronts, Kyiv besieged by frequent drone and missile strikes, and officials preparing for Donald Trump to reclaim the White House in January.
In a boost for the beleaguered country, US president Joe Biden gave the green light for US missiles to be used against targets deeper inside Russia, potentially limiting its options to launch attacks and supply the front.
But the dramatic shift in policy may be reversed when Mr Trump returns to the White House in January, and military experts cautioned that it would not be enough on its own to change the course of the 33-month-old war.
Thousands of Ukrainian citizens have died, over 6 million live as refugees abroad and the population has fallen by a quarter since Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion by land, sea and air that began Europe\u2019s biggest conflict since the Second World War.
Military losses have been catastrophic, although they remain closely guarded secrets. Public Western estimates based on intelligence reports vary widely, but most say hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded on each side.
Tragedy has touched families in every corner of Ukraine, where military funerals are commonplace in major cities and far-flung villages, and people are exhausted by sleepless nights of air raid sirens and anguish.
Now the return of Mr Trump, who has vowed to end the fighting quickly \u2013 without saying how \u2013 calls into question the future of US military aid and the united Western front against Mr Putin, and raises the prospect of talks to end the war.
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