#intermediate range nuclear missiles

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भारत ने बैलिस्टिक मिसाइल अग्नि-4 का किया सफल परीक्षण, चीन और पाकिस्तान की बढ़ी टेंशन

भारत ने बैलिस्टिक मिसाइल अग्नि-4 का किया सफल परीक्षण, चीन और पाकिस्तान की बढ़ी टेंशन #News #Agni4 #MissileTechnology #DefenseResearch #IndianDefense #IndianMissile #StrategicSecurity #DefenseInnovation #AerospaceEngineering #MilitaryStrength

Agni-4 Ballistic Missile: भारत ने शुक्रवार को ओडिशा के चांदीपुर स्थित एकीकृत परीक्षण रेंज से मध्यम दूरी की बैलिस्टिक मिसाइल अग्नि-4 का सफल परीक्षण किया. रक्षा सूत्रों के अनुसार, यह परीक्षण सभी परिचालनात्मक और तकनीकी मापदंडों पर पूरी तरह सफल रहा, जिससे देश की सामरिक क्षमताओं में और भी मजबूती आई है. भारत के इस कदम से चीन और पाकिस्तान टेंशन में जरूर आ गए होंगे. सफल परीक्षण: अग्नि-4 मिसाइल का यह…

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[worldmilitary]

European Union Suspects Iranian Satellite Launcher Could Be Intermediate...

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Russia Did Not Fire an ICBM Today, They Fired Something Much Worse – A Message

November 21, 2024 | Sundance | 424 Comments

Despite the diminutive Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy jumping around and shouting about Russians firing an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) today, they didn’t.  Instead, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided his response to the U.S-led NATO group firing missiles into the Russian Federation would be to send a message with a multi-warhead intermediate range hypersonic missile. {Background Message Context}

President Vladimir Putin said, “one of the newest Russian medium-range missile systems was tested in combat conditions, in this case with a ballistic missile in non-nuclear hypersonic edition.”  The missile has a range of approximately 3,500 kilometers, below the threshold for the “Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), that’s a reach throughout western Europe and the hypersonic message is likely, ‘you have no iron dome system that can prevent this.”

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🟪 MORE SPIES CAUGHT, HAMAS HUMAN SHIELD STRATEGY PROVEN - Real time from Israel  

ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

A Gut’a Chol HaMoed from Israel - happy Succot intermediate holy days.

( PHOTO - doing your best to make a Sukkah in Lebanon. )

🔅END OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME in Israel, this Saturday night 2:00 AM. Change clocks back 1 hour, computers and phones should auto-adjust.▪️

❗️MORE SPIES CAUGHT.. 7 residents of east Jerusalem were arrested on suspicion of planning to eliminate a nuclear scientist and a mayor - on behalf of Iran.

⭕LEBANON - ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE at IDF JETS from HEZBOLLAH per Al Jazeera with video (not shared here), 23 mm anti-aircraft fire.

⭕HEZBOLLAH FIRES LONG RANGE MISSILE(S) this morning, alerts from Zichron Yaakov through north Tel Aviv.

Hezbollah for long range launches 1-5 missiles (so far).  With the low number and longer flight time, interception has been 100%.  Because of high altitude and speed of the flight, the scatter pattern for the debris covers a huge area. That is why a small number of missiles results in a large alert area in central Israel.

The opposite is occurring in the north, where Hezbollah is firing 20-110 short range rockets in a barrage, therefore each alert area is 1 or multiple rockets inbound.

⭕HAIFA PORT WORKERS GET THREATENING SMS.. Haifa port workers received messages Monday which stated that the port's system had been hacked and that they should leave the place as it would be the target of a missile attack.

⭕HAIFA - KRAYOT.. strong explosion without warning as an incoming rocket hits a nearby open area.

♦️LEBANON - HEAVY OVERNIGHT AIRSTRIKES across parts of Beirut and other areas.

♦️LEBANON - news report: boy killed working his shop due to Israeli STRIKE ON THE ROCKET LAUNCHER IN THE BACK space being rented by Hezbollah - reported straight like that.

♦️LEBANON - MASS EXODUS from Beirut continues, both sides of the highway going OUT.

♦️LEBANON - BUNKER UNDER HOSPITAL CAUSES PANIC.. Following the IDF spokesman's announcement regarding the Hezbollah cash-vault bunker under the al-Sakhal hospital in Harat Kharik in Dahiya in Beirut, hysteria began in the area surrounding the hospital as people tried to flee assuming an incoming IDF attack.

🔹US VS HOUTHIS $$.. The cost of the damage suffered by the US military so far is $186 million just from the downing of the MQ-9 Reaper drones.

❗️HAMAS’s MANIPULATIONS & INTENTIONAL HUMAN SHIELDS.. (WSJ) “As Arab mediators tried to speed up cease-fire talks, (Hamas leader) Sinwar urged his comrades in Hamas’s political leadership based outside of Gaza to REFUSE concessions. High civilian casualties would create worldwide pressure on Israel, Sinwar said in a message.

Sinwar messaged Hamas officials, urging them to refuse a hostage deal. Hamas had the upper hand in negotiations, Sinwar said, citing internal political divisions within Israel, cracks in Netanyahu’s wartime coalition and mounting U.S. pressure to alleviate the suffering in Gaza.”

▪️SERIOUS CRIMINAL INCIDENT - KFAR QASIM.. (Israeli Arabi/Bedouin town near Rosh Ha’ayin) 3 young people, ages 17, 17, 20, stabbed, critical condition, CPR.

▪️TRUMP SAYS.. Trump on the talks for a ceasefire in Lebanon: I spoke with people from Lebanon and to my surprise they want it (the attacks on Hezbollah) to continue as long as possible.

▪️AID PROFIT..  IDF: Paul Landes, head of the economic warfare staff at the Ministry of Defense, refuses to answer the question of whether Hamas makes money from humanitarian aid.

[godisarepublican]

Apparently Putin is so dumb he hasn't figured out that these clowns want a nuclear war!

[dertaglichedan]

Moscow threatens to attack POLAND: Kremlin warns it can strike US base using 'advanced weapons' as NATO scrambles jets and Putin unleashes 'ICBM' in Ukraine for first time after Storm Shadow strike

Russia this morning threatened to strike US air bases in Poland with 'advanced weapons' hours after it reportedly launched an advanced missile as part of a brutal barrage of targets across Ukraine.

Moscow said the opening of a new US ballistic missile defence base in Redzikowo near the Baltic coast will 'increase the overall level of nuclear danger', adding it had been added to a list of possible targets for Russia.

The facility, opened on November 13, forms part of a broader NATO missile shield called 'Aegis Ashore' designed to intercept short- and intermediate-range ballistic weapons.

'This is another frankly provocative step in a series of deeply destabilising actions by the Americans and their allies,' Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said of the airbase's unveiling.

'(The base) has been added to the list of priority targets for potential destruction which, if necessary, can be executed with a wide range of advanced weapons,' she concluded. 

Her statement came minutes after Ukraine's air force reported that a suspected ICBM had been fired from a base in Russia's southern Astrakhan region on the Caspian Sea early this morning. 

Russian authorities have not yet confirmed the launch, but if true it would be the first time such a powerful missile has been deployed in the war.

Some analysts expressed incredulity over reports of a fully-fledged ICBM being deployed, arguing that the reported range of the strike - roughly 700km or 454 miles - fell short of what would typically be expected of an intercontinental missile. 

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Update(1320ET): On Thursday President Vladimir Putin issued a stern warning in the wake of Ukraine launching long-range strikes on Russia's territory utilizing newly approved US and UK long-range missiles.

"Kiev has launched a long-range missile strike against military facilities located within internationally-recognized Russian territory," began his televised address by saying. He confirmed British-made Storm Shadow missiles and US-made HIMARS were fired targets located in Bryansk and Kursk Regions.

He said this action threatens to turn the Ukraine conflict into a global war. "A regional Ukraine conflict instigated by the West has acquired elements of a global one," Putin spelled out, and noted that these systems cannot be used without the direct operational involvement of Western military specialists. 

But he went on to claim that the inbound Western rockets were intercepted by Russian defenses. "The goals that have apparently been set by the enemy have not been achieved." He suggested injuries among some personnel at a command center in Kursk, but noted it continues full operations. He also asserted that no Western systems can counter Russia's new missiles, on display earlier in the day.

"The use of such weapons by the enemy cannot affect the course of the situation in the Special Military Operation zone," Putin stressed. He also said it was a big mistake for the US to pull out of the the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019.

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The Marine Corps stood up its first-ever Tomahawk cruise missile battery at Camp Pendleton, Calif., last week.[...] “This is a historic chapter in the Marine Corps and the 11th Marine Regiment. The American people expect the Marine Corps to prepare for war,” said Col. Patrick Eldridge, commanding officer of the 11th Marine Regiment, in the activation ceremony’s press release.[,,,] Tomahawks are one of the key assets being procured to achieve a long-range fires capability as the service gears up for challenges in the Pacific through Force Design 2030.[...]

This combination of Tomahawk and SM-6 provides the MDTF with a mid-range strike capability, which was only recently possible from the U.S. Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty withdrawal. While ground-based Tomahawks were used before during the Cold War, the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty restricted the deployment of ground-based missiles with ranges between 500 to1,000 and 1,000 to 5,500 kilometers. [...] the U.S. has returned to the ground-based deployment and development of missiles within these ranges. Shortly after its withdrawal in 2019, the U.S. launched Tomahawk in a test to inform the future development of intermediate-ranged systems, such as the Marine Corps’ Long-Range Fires Launcher and the Army’s Typhon.[...] “I imagine someone pretty high up said, ‘We’ve seen what Marines can do with rifles, let’s see what Marines can do with Tomahawks’” Col. Eldridge said.

25 Jul 23

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Putin statement on the West’s strikes into Russian territory outside the SMO area*

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: I would like to inform the military personnel of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, citizens of our country, our friends across the globe, and those who persist in the illusion that a strategic defeat can be inflicted upon Russia, about the events taking place today in the zone of the special military operation, specifically following the attacks by Western long-range weapons against our territory.

The escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, instigated by the West, continues with the United States and its NATO allies previously announcing that they authorise the use of their long-range high-precision weapons for strikes inside the Russian Federation. Experts are well aware, and the Russian side has repeatedly highlighted it, that the use of such weapons is not possible without the direct involvement of military experts from the manufacturing nations.

On November 19, six ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles produced by the United States, and on November 21, during a combined missile assault involving British Storm Shadow systems and HIMARS systems produced by the US, attacked military facilities inside the Russian Federation in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. From that point onward, as we have repeatedly emphasised in prior communications, the regional conflict in Ukraine provoked by the West has assumed elements of a global nature. Our air defence systems successfully counteracted these incursions, preventing the enemy from achieving their apparent objectives.

The fire at the ammunition depot in the Bryansk Region, caused by the debris of ATACMS missiles, was extinguished without casualties or significant damage. In the Kursk Region, the attack targeted one of the command posts of our group North. Regrettably, the attack and the subsequent air defence battle resulted in casualties, both fatalities and injuries, among the perimeter security units and servicing staff. However, the command and operational staff of the control centre suffered no casualties and continues to manage effectively the operations of our forces to eliminate and push enemy units out of the Kursk Region.

I wish to underscore once again that the use by the enemy of such weapons cannot affect the course of combat operations in the special military operation zone. Our forces are making successful advances along the entire line of contact, and all objectives we have set will be accomplished.

In response to the deployment of American and British long-range weapons, on November 21, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a combined strike on a facility within Ukraine’s defence industrial complex. In field conditions, we also carried out tests of one of Russia’s latest medium-range missile systems – in this case, carrying a non-nuclear hypersonic ballistic missile that our engineers named Oreshnik. The tests were successful, achieving the intended objective of the launch. In the city of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, one of the largest and most famous industrial complexes from the Soviet Union era, which continues to produce missiles and other armaments, was hit.

We are developing intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles in response to US plans to produce and deploy intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. We believe that the United States made a mistake by unilaterally destroying the INF Treaty in 2019 under far-fetched pretext. Today, the United States is not only producing such equipment, but, as we can see, it has worked out ways to deploy its advanced missile systems to different regions of the world, including Europe, during training exercises for its troops. Moreover, in the course of these exercises, they are conducting training for using them.

As a reminder, Russia has voluntarily and unilaterally committed not to deploy intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles until US weapons of this kind appear in any region of the world.

To reiterate, we are conducting combat tests of the Oreshnik missile system in response to NATO’s aggressive actions against Russia. Our decision on further deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles will depend on the actions of the United States and its satellites.

We will determine the targets during further tests of our advanced missile systems based on the threats to the security of the Russian Federation. We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against military facilities of those countries that allow to use their weapons against our facilities, and in case of an escalation of aggressive actions, we will respond decisively and in mirror-like manner. I recommend that the ruling elites of the countries that are hatching plans to use their military contingents against Russia seriously consider this.

It goes without saying that when choosing, if necessary and as a retaliatory measure, targets to be hit by systems such as Oreshnik on Ukrainian territory, we will in advance suggest that civilians and citizens of friendly countries residing in those areas leave danger zones. We will do so for humanitarian reasons, openly and publicly, without fear of counter-moves coming from the enemy, who will also be receiving this information.

Why without fear? Because there are no means of countering such weapons today. Missiles attack targets at a speed of Mach 10, which is 2.5 to 3 kilometres per second. Air defence systems currently available in the world and missile defence systems being created by the Americans in Europe cannot intercept such missiles. It is impossible.

I would like to emphasise once again that it was not Russia, but the United States that destroyed the international security system and, by continuing to fight, cling to its hegemony, they are pushing the whole world into a global conflict.

We have always preferred and are ready now to resolve all disputes by peaceful means. But we are also ready for any turn of events.

If anyone still doubts this, make no mistake: there will always be a response.

Publication date:  November 21, 2024, 20:10

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*strikes inside Russia's pre-2014 borders

[nikrei]

Okay so its wildly ironic (and a sign of different sides of DC just not talking to each other) that the Dr Fate and Phantom Stranger mini-series has a major plot point of rising nuclear tensions between the US and the Soviet Union happening at The Same Time as Firestorm is all about nuclear disarmament and the US and USSR are actually sorta getting along (because they both hate Firestorm so much). U cannot have it both ways.

The mystical side of DC comes to a head in the 3rd issue of phantom stranger (December 1987), with Reagan and his cabinet having a cuban missile crisis level situation, where they are literally seconds away from total war as demon!reagan (v easy to confuse w normal reagan, no difference really) phones in the code to launch nuclear missiles. (This is thwarted of course, because this is comics. Also we get to see the Phantom Stranger punch reagan in the face)

(Phantom Stranger #3, Dec 1987)

Meanwhile, in Firestorm, Ronnie and Martin have been running around for the past 4 months trying to forcibly disarm the world of nuclear weapons, interrupting a summit in iceland and threatening everyone that if they don't do it, he's gonna do it for them.

As one might expect, this pisses everyone off. The US and USSR tag team to try and take him down (this is also happening simultaneously with the justice league going international and the us and ussr each putting their own player on the team to try and keep them in check (jli 7 & captain atom 10)). They fail miserably, firestorm and the russian agent fuse, and at the end of it at least Reagan is promising to take disarmament seriously:

(Firestorm: Nuclear Man 65, Nov 1987)

This is actually following real world stuff pretty well! When they interrupt the iceland summit, the comic references the summit 'last year' which was the Oct 1986 Reykjavik Summit. That was where Reagan and Gorbachev failed to come to an immediate agreement for nuclear disarmament. In the real world, talks continued for a year and then in on December 8, 1987 the US and USSR signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), which was an agreement to disarm all Intermediate-Range weapons by 1991. In the DC world, this agreement is obviously brought about by Firestorm leveraging the world leaders.

So, like, its totally wild for the mystic side of DC to not know what's going on over on the earthly side, especially when the earthly side is directly mirroring real life events (well, as directly as comics can. certain values of directly). It is even more wild that Phantom Stranger's Missile Crisis was literally released at the same time the INF Treaty was signed.

[youzicha]

Khrushchev repeatedly boasted that he could place a nuclear bomb in orbit ("We placed Gagarin and Titov in space, and we can replace them with other loads that can be directed to any place on Earth"), and the Kennedy administration worried that he would score a peacetime propaganda victory ("If the Soviets place a bomb in orbit and threaten us and if this adminstration has refused to develop a capability to destroy it in orbit, you will see the first impeachment proceeding of an American President since Andrew Johnson").

The worries of a Soviet bomb in orbit led to the first nuclear-armed anti-satellite systems, Project 505 (based on the Nike Zeus anti-ballistic missile) and Program 437 (based on the Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile). Based at Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean, the Thor missiles stood ready to shoot down a single Soviet satellite within 24 hours until they were retired in 1974.

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death of a true war criminal,zero accountability

Death of true war criminal, good riddance, zero accountability

The infamous US war criminal, Henry Kissinger died centenary in his bed in Kent, Connecticut, while his millions of victims all over the world were not so lucky. Kissinger would be celebrated and feted as genial geopolitical analyst, hailed as the man of rapprochement and détente between the United states and China, of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), arms limitation treaties between the US and the USSR, aimed at restraining the arms race in long-range or intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons, which had resulted in the signing of SALT I and SALT II in 1972 and 1979, the evil who fooled Gorbachev to struck the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in 1987. Kissinger might not have been motivated by hatred of communism. But he was a reactionary who empowered and enabled the sort of reactionaries for whom anticommunism was a respectable channel for America’s racist and exploitative socio-economic traditions.

Bush’s declaration of protection for Kissinger, coupled with his rejection of the Rome Treaty on the International Criminal Court, extinguished a glimmer of hope that Kissinger would someday join Pinochet under arrest. It was always a fantasy. The international architecture that the U.S. and its allies established after World War II, shorthanded today as the “rules-based international order,” somehow never gets around to applying the same pressure on a hegemonic United States as it applies to U.S.-hostile or defiant powers. It reflects the organizing principle of American exceptionalism: America acts; it is not acted upon. Henry Kissinger was a supreme architect of the rules-based international order.

Of course, the western mainstream would hide the dark side of the evil responsible of mass killing scored more than 4 million deaths according to the Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimating that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald Ford’s foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state. America, like every empire, champions its state murderers. Every single person who died in Vietnam between autumn 1968 and the Fall of Saigon died because of Henry Kissin Kissinger materially sabotaged the only chance for an end to the war in 1968 as a hedged bet to ensure he would achieve power in Nixon’s administration. In February 1969, weeks after taking office, and lasting through April 1970, U.S. warplanes secretly dropped 110,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia. By the summer of 1969, according to a colonel on the Joint Staff, Kissinger — who had no constitutional role in the military chain of command — was personally selecting bombing targets. A second phase of bombing continued until August 1973, five months after the final U.S. combat troops withdrew from Vietnam. By then, U.S. bombs had killed an estimated 100000 people out of a population of only 700,000. The final phase of the bombing, which occurred after the Paris Peace Accords mandated U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, was its most intense, an act of cruel vengeance from a thwarted superpower. Kissinger inflicted indirectly rather than by edict. In 1971, the Pakistani government waged a campaign of genocide to suppress the independence movement in what would become Bangladesh. For Kissinger, the Cold War was a geopolitical balance among two great powers. The purpose of Cold War statecraft was to maximize American freedom of action to inflict Washington’s will on the world — a zero-sum contest that meant restricting the ability of the Soviet Union to inflict Moscow’s — without the destabilization, or outright Armageddon, that would result from pursuing a final defeat of the Soviets. On September 4, 1970, Chileans elected the democratic socialist Salvador Allende president whose program was more than redistributionist, nationalizing the firms Anaconda Copper and Kennecott held by these two companies, Allende informed them he would deduct estimated “excess profit” from a compensatory package he was willing to pay the firms. It was this sort of unacceptable policy that prompted Kissinger to remark, during an intelligence meeting about two months before Allende’s election, “I don’t see why we need to stand idly by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.” The coup was only the beginning. Within two years, Pinochet’s regime invited Milton Friedman, Arnold Harberger, and other economists from the University of Chicago to advise them. Chile pioneered the implementation of their agenda: severe government budgetary austerity; relentless assaults on organized labor; privatization of state assets, including health care and public pensions; layoffs of government employees; abolition of wages and price controls; and deregulation of capital markets. “Multinationals were not only granted the right to repatriate 100 percent of their profits but given guaranteed exchange rates to help them do so,” Grandin writes in his book Empire’s Workshop. European and American bankers flocked to Chile before its 1982 economic collapse. The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank loaned Pinochet $3.1 billion between 1976 and 1986. Pinochet’s torture chambers were the maternity ward of neoliberalism, a baby delivered bloody and screaming by Henry Kissinger. This was the “just and liberal world order” Hillary Clinton considered Kissinger’s life work.

[lukadjo]

Fun fact: You only need around a few hundred well placed nuclear strikes to start a nuclear winter, effectively ensuring the deaths of billions.

"The State of Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons. Estimates of Israel's stockpile range between 80 and 400 nuclear warheads, and the country is believed to possess the ability to deliver them in several methods, including by aircraft, as submarine-launched cruise missiles, and via the Jericho series of intermediate to intercontinental range ballistic missiles."

-Wikipedia

Study about the effects of various amounts of nuclear weapons

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[ad_1] The US State Department on Monday lashed out at Russia, solely holding them responsible for the security concerns raised by South Korea, Japan, and the US regarding the involvement of North Korean troops in the conflict in Ukraine. Addressing a press briefing, the spokesperson of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, said, “It is Russia, and Russia alone that is responsible for the very real security concerns that South Korea, the United States, Japan, and any number of other countries have about the movement of DPRK troops to join the fight in Russia against Ukraine. ” In response to the reports of Russia’s recruitment efforts of Yemeni mercenaries for the war, Miller expressed the US’s concerns over it as well as Russia’s broader efforts to bolster its forces amid the ongoing conflict. “We have seen those reports of them luring foreign nationals, including potentially Yemeni nationals, with promises of jobs, citizenship, and university admissions to fight in the war against Ukraine. I would say that’s definitely something that concerns us. We have seen these reports, I should note, not just with respect to Yemen, but you’ve seen them at times with respect to other countries, reports that Russia was trying to recruit mercenaries. So it would not surprise me at all, given the desperation that we have seen Russia face, where they’ve had to recruit a foreign army to come into Russia to join the fight, that they would be recruiting mercenaries in Yemen and beyond. Still, it’s not something I can confirm,” he said. In light of Russia’s recent experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile strike in Ukraine’s Dnipro region, Miller stated that there would be no change in the US nuclear posture or its support for Ukraine’s defence efforts and emphasised the US’s commitment to Ukraine’s fight for sovereignty and territorial integrity against Russia. “When it comes to nuclear posture, if that’s the approach that you meant, no, we have not changed our underlying nuclear posture and don’t anticipate the need to do so. Regarding our overall approach with respect to Ukraine, we will continue to support Ukraine. We believe in their fight for their freedom. We believe in their fight against a country that has tried to change the borders of Ukraine by force, and we’re going to continue to support them,” he said. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] The US State Department on Monday lashed out at Russia, solely holding them responsible for the security concerns raised by South Korea, Japan, and the US regarding the involvement of North Korean troops in the conflict in Ukraine. Addressing a press briefing, the spokesperson of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, said, “It is Russia, and Russia alone that is responsible for the very real security concerns that South Korea, the United States, Japan, and any number of other countries have about the movement of DPRK troops to join the fight in Russia against Ukraine. ” In response to the reports of Russia’s recruitment efforts of Yemeni mercenaries for the war, Miller expressed the US’s concerns over it as well as Russia’s broader efforts to bolster its forces amid the ongoing conflict. “We have seen those reports of them luring foreign nationals, including potentially Yemeni nationals, with promises of jobs, citizenship, and university admissions to fight in the war against Ukraine. I would say that’s definitely something that concerns us. We have seen these reports, I should note, not just with respect to Yemen, but you’ve seen them at times with respect to other countries, reports that Russia was trying to recruit mercenaries. So it would not surprise me at all, given the desperation that we have seen Russia face, where they’ve had to recruit a foreign army to come into Russia to join the fight, that they would be recruiting mercenaries in Yemen and beyond. Still, it’s not something I can confirm,” he said. In light of Russia’s recent experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile strike in Ukraine’s Dnipro region, Miller stated that there would be no change in the US nuclear posture or its support for Ukraine’s defence efforts and emphasised the US’s commitment to Ukraine’s fight for sovereignty and territorial integrity against Russia. “When it comes to nuclear posture, if that’s the approach that you meant, no, we have not changed our underlying nuclear posture and don’t anticipate the need to do so. Regarding our overall approach with respect to Ukraine, we will continue to support Ukraine. We believe in their fight for their freedom. We believe in their fight against a country that has tried to change the borders of Ukraine by force, and we’re going to continue to support them,” he said. [ad_2] Source link