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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.
Britain will \u201chelp keep the lights of Ukraine on in the face of Putin\u2019s aggression\u201d, David Lammy said, as Kyiv marks a \u201cgrim milestone\u201d of 1,000 days since Russia\u2019s invasion.
Speaking alongside his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha, the foreign secretary condemned Moscow\u2019s recent attack on Ukraine, adding: \u201cIt was designed not only to kill Ukrainians, but to take out effectively Ukraine\u2019s power infrastructure and to cause blackouts.\u201d
\u201cPutin wants to plunge Ukraine into darkness. But today, standing here with my friend, the Ukrainian foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, the UK is showing our support to Ukraine is ironclad.
\u201cWe will help keep the lights of Ukraine on in the face of Putin\u2019s aggression, and that matters not just for Ukraine\u2019s security, Britain\u2019s security or indeed Europe\u2019s security.\u201d
Vladimir Putin has maintained a cold silence over Washington allowing Ukraine to strike with Russia with its American-made Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMs.
However, early signals from the Kremlin warned that Mr Biden is adding \u201cfuel to the fire\u201d of the war and would escalate international tensions even higher.
Mr Biden\u2019s decision almost entirely was triggered by North Korea\u2019s entry into the fight, according to a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, and was made just before he left for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru.
\u201cThis is a signal the Biden administration is sending to North Korea and Russia, indicating that the decision to involve North Korean units has crossed a red line,\u201d according to Glib Voloskyi, an analyst at the CBA Initiatives Center, a Kyiv-based think tank.
Six people were killed, including a child, in Russia\u2019s drone attack on Ukraine\u2019s northeastern region of Sumy, regional officials said this morning.
At least 12 people were injured in the drone attack on a residential dormitory in the small town of Hlukhiv, the military administration of the Sumy region, which borders Russia, said on the Telegram channel.
David Lammy said \u201cone president at a time\u201d when asked how concerned he was about the implications of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency for the war in Ukraine.
Speaking to press after a meeting of the UN security council, the foreign secretary said: \u201cI\u2019ve studied in this country, I\u2019ve worked in this country, and I know that there\u2019s a simple rule: one president at a time.
\u201cWe\u2019re dealing with President Biden and we are committed to putting Ukraine in the strongest possible position.\u201d
The clock on her wall stopped almost as soon as the day began, its hands frozen by the Russian bomb that hit the dormitory serving as home for Ukrainians displaced by war.
It was 1.45am in an upstairs room in the eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Natalia Panasenko\u2019s home for just shy of a year after the town she thinks of as her real home came under Russian occupation. The explosion blasted a door on top of her, smashed her refrigerator and television and shredded the flowers she\u2019d just received for her 63rd birthday.
\u201cThe house was full of people and flowers. People were congratulating me … and then there was nothing. Everything was mixed in the rubble,\u201d she said. \u201cI come from a place where the war is going on every day. We only just left there, and it seemed to be quieter here. And the war caught up with us again.\u201d
The Associated Press fanned out across Ukraine to chronicle a typical 24 hours of life just as the country was about to mark 1,000 days since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022
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?
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