“The decision to allow kyiv to attack has been made; carte blanche has been given and indulgences have been granted. Therefore, We will respond brutally“This is how Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stated his blunt remarks to the Russian news agency TASS. The deputy head of the Russian Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev, wanted to express himself in a more forceful tone, warning that “Russia is being patient. It is clear that A nuclear response is an extremely complex decision with irreversible consequences, but all patience has a limit.”
However, on the Western side, the ‘allies’ are arguing whether allowing Ukraine to use its weapons to attack Russia would significantly change the course of the war. British Prime Minister, Keir Starmerarrived in Washington on Friday to discuss with the US president, Joe Bidenthis concession.
Meanwhile, the figure of exchanged captives The death toll between Ukraine and Russia reached 1,994 on Saturday. This time, 206 people were freed in the Kursk region, many of them prisoners of the Kremlin for more than two years. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense in a statement, each side exchanged 103 soldiers with the humanitarian mediation of the United Arab Emirates. In late August, both sides also exchanged 230 prisoners of war, including a number of Russian conscripts who had been captured at Kursk while performing military service.
Arrival in Ukraine of former prisoners taken by Russia
Nothing would change
US officials, during the talks between Starmer and Biden, noted that Ukraine already has the capability to attack targets in Russia using drones and that while US-supplied long-range ATACMS missiles would enhance its capability, they would not be enough to change the dynamic.
Referring to Ukraine, Washington also stressed the true direction that Zelensky’s strategy should take. Beyond asking for more weapons to attack Russian soil, “kyiv should focus on stopping the Russian advance in the east of the country.”
However, the main fear remains on the table: the beginning of a direct war between NATO and Russia. As Joe Biden suggested. In this regard, Ryabkov told TASS that “Moscow periodically sends messages to Washington. In the course of these contacts, all the necessary signals are transmitted from our side. That is why I say that we are really engaged in a permanent political and diplomatic work with the aim of prevent the situation from becoming an uncontrollable crisis“.
Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine cannot launch attacks inside its territory without the help of the West because it needs Satellite intelligence and flight data input to do so. According to the Russian president, the current debate among NATO countries is not limited to the possible use by kyiv of long-range Western weapons, but also to the possibility of becoming directly involved in the conflict.
Russian military display of captured Ukrainian weapons in Rostov-on-Don.
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Iran on the board
Last Tuesday the US assured that Russia would have received ballistic missiles from Iranwhich is why it announced new sanctions against ships and companies “involved” in the supply of Iranian weapons to Moscow. Information that was “previously warned” by the British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy.
“They will likely be using them within weeks against Ukraine,” Blinken said, citing intelligence he said has been shared with U.S. allies and partners around the world.
In their defense, Iran’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that they had not delivered any ballistic missiles to Russia and that the sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States and the three European powers would not solve any problems between them. “Once again, the United States and the ‘E3’ act based on Misinformation and flawed logic. Iran has NOT delivered ballistic missiles to Russia. Period. Sanctions are not a solutionbut part of the problem,” the statement said.
The G7 foreign ministers on Saturday condemned “in the strongest terms” Iran’s exports and Russia’s acquisition of Iranian ballistic missiles. “Iran must immediately cease all support for Russia’s illegal and unjustifiable war against Ukraine, which constitutes a direct threat to the Ukrainian people as well as to European and international security in general,” the statement said.
Ukrainian President Zelensky meets with NATO Military Committee Chairman Admiral Bauer in kyiv. File image.
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Similarly, in the same vein as Iran, Russia denied such accusations. “Our cooperation has stood the test of time and does not contain elements that constitute a violation “from the point of view of international obligations or in any way negatively influence someone’s security or any regional balance,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying by the agency. TASS.
Almost 2000 released
Despite the third exchange of prisoners of war since kyiv’s incursion into Russian territory, Ukrainian troops continue to press and even advance in some areas of the Russian Kursk region.
According to the Ukrainian analytical project Deep Statein the Kursk region the kyiv forces occupied Vetreno, Durovka and part of Zhuravliwhile the Russians recaptured Snagost and the surrounding villages and advanced towards Liubimivka.
The Russian Army launched this week a counteroffensive at Kurskwhere Ukrainian troops entered on August 6 to try to ward off Russian attacks on the northeastern regions of Kharkiv and Sumi and slow Russian pressure on the eastern front of Donetsk, and eventually occupied 1,300 square kilometers of territory.
Ukrainian prisoners of war after their release.
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Russia claims to have recovered the control over ten localities And while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted this week that a Russian counteroffensive is underway, both the Pentagon and the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) consider today the “marginal” operation.
Zelensky also assures that Russia has not made any “significant achievements” in the counterattack, for which Russia plans – it said – to increase the number of soldiers deployed in Kursk to between 60,000 and 70,000.
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