Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskyy urges ‘firm and decisive’ international response to ‘latest act of Russian madness’ – as it happened
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Russian leader claims experimental ballistic missile cannot be intercepted and says Moscow will keep testing and begin serial production

Kremlin says hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine was a warning to the west

The Kremlin said on Friday that a strike on Ukraine using a newly developed hypersonic ballistic missile was designed to warn the west that Moscow will respond to moves by the US and the UK to let Kyiv strike Russia with their missiles.

According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, was speaking a day after Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said Moscow had fired the new missile – the Oreshnik or ‘hazel tree’- at a Ukrainian military facility.

Peskov said Russia had not been obliged to warn the US about the strike, but had informed the US 30 minutes before the launch anyway. Putin remained open to dialogue, Peskov said.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Yes, as many western experts explained in great detail for many decades now. Yet, we still have ignoramuses running around pretending that's not the case. Even Stoltenberg has admitted this on record at this point, time to update your script

      He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that. So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders.

      https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_218172.htm

    • Maturin [any]
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      1 month ago

      I suppose it’s also NATOs fault Russia invaded Ukraine in the first place?

      side-eye-1

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Pretty much, yes. If one great power keeps threatening and encroaching on another and undermines all attempts at diplomacy, it's pretty obvious what is going to happen.

      • Devorlon@lemmy.zip
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        1 month ago

        Yes the greatest threat, if you attack me and my friends we'll attack you. Very scary so aggressive

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          1 month ago

          Me and my friends, just standing here next to you, brandishing our weapons...

          • Devorlon@lemmy.zip
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            1 month ago

            As a deterrent, because I've never seen a NATO country attack Russia but have seen Russia invade plenty of countries not in NATO.

            It's almost like countries want to join NATO to avoid being invaded by Russia.

            • robinn_
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              1 month ago

              Operation Gladio by Paul L. Williams

              Gladio: NATO’s Dagger Through the Heart of Europe by Richard Cottrell

              *details on NATO false-flag terrorism in Italy to frame communists and rig elections against them (so that Italy wouldn’t increase ties to the USSR chiefly), NATO Nazi stay-behind armies in numerous states that were used to crush left-wing movements, etc.

              How NATO Worked With Fascists to Crush the Left in Turkey

              NATO controlled the very forces in the countries that would guarantee its stay there, rigging elections against and terrorizing movements that could potentially throw them out. You are sanitizing a Nazi fascist organization by omitting this aspect and simplifying NATO membership to a straightforwardly consensual relationship and I think you should be banned, along with everyone who liked your comment if that’s the policy now.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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          1 month ago

          Hey neighbor, you don't mind if I invite over my serial killer friend with "1488 gas all Devorlons" tattooed across his forehead to stay over for a while, right? Btw we're building a deer hunting stand in my yard with a perfect view of the couch you post from, don't freak out about it though. It's just a couple of guys hanging out.

          • Devorlon@lemmy.zip
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            1 month ago

            Yep, just you and your friend in your property, as long as you don't attack it doesn't matter.

            https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-usa-idUSKBN2BV2Z3/

            • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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              1 month ago

              You genuinely think that someone who specifically wants to kill you making preparations from which they can kill you is fine, as long as they don't actually kill you? You're not a tiny bit bothered by the possibility of them actually killing you?

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Yes lmao, if they didn't ignore the minsk agreements and do a coup (maidan) to install a CIA handpicked government, this would not have happened.

    • IWantToMakeProgress [any]
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      1 month ago

      Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer - Date: Sep 26, 2015

      John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, assesses the causes of the present Ukraine crisis, the best way to end it, and its consequences for all of the main actors. A key assumption is that in order to come up with the optimum plan for ending the crisis, it is essential to know what caused the crisis. Regarding the all-important question of causes, the key issue is whether Russia or the West bears primary responsibility.

      Watch this and think for yourself. A very similar comparison is Cuban Missile Crisis 1962.