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President Zelensky suggested to The Guardian in May that in reality Downing Street was waiting on the Americans to give their approval.
A final decision by the UK and other partners depended on “consensus”, with the position in Washington being crucial, he suggested. “You know how it works,” he added.
Colby Badhwar, an independent military analyst, told The Times: “The Biden administration continues to maintain their policy that Ukraine is not permitted to use long range fires to strike deep into Russia; a prohibition that applies not just to the American ATACMS, but the British Storm Shadow as well.” Although Ukraine is not permitted to use Storm Shadow to fire at targets inside Russia, it is however allowed to use other western weapons and British Challenger 2 tanks have already been spotted in the Kursk region.
Military authorities in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk on Friday urged civilians to speed up their evacuation because the Russian army was quickly closing in on what has been one of Moscow’s key targets for months.
Pokrovsk officials said in a Telegram post that Russian troops were “advancing at a fast pace. With every passing day there is less and less time to collect personal belongings and leave for safer regions.”
Ukrainian troops have been trying to divert the Kremlin’s military focus away from the front line in Ukraine by launching a bold cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. But Zelenskyy warned Thursday that Pokrovsk and other nearby towns in the Donetsk region were “facing the most intense Russian assaults.”
US blocks Ukraine from firing British missiles into Russia - The Times
UK government source says request sent to Washington more than a month ago to allow the Storm Shadow missile to be fired into Russia still awaits a reply.
Washington is effectively blocking Britain from allowing Kyiv to fire Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia, amid fears in the Biden administration of an escalation in the Ukraine war.
As pressure grows on the West to relax its rules around the use of long range weapons, Britain is waiting for US approval before it gives the Ukrainians the green light. However, the request went into the system more than a month ago and officials are still waiting, a UK government source said.
They said their understanding was that the topic was effectively “stuck in their system”. A second UK government source confirmed that “discussions were still ongoing” and a third defence source described it as “routine US process”.
It is understood that although the UK wants to give Ukraine the freedom to do what they want with the long-range weapon, it requires consensus from allies, including the US, France and a third undisclosed Nato country.
Storm Shadows can fire at targets more than 155 miles away and could be used to hit military bases deeper inside Russia that have been crucial for Moscow’s war effort inside Ukraine.
Sabrina Singh, the deputy spokeswoman for the US department of defence admitted in a briefing on Thursday that the US was “worried about escalation” when it came to Ukraine’s use of long range strikes.
She also suggested long range weapons were not needed to help Ukraine liberate its territory.
Matthew Palmer, chargé d’affaires of the US to the UK, in a Times Radio interview to be broadcast on Sunday, distanced himself from the notion that the US had any say in the matter, saying that the terms under which UK weapons could be used were a matter for London and Kyiv. “I’m not going to insert myself into that conversation,” he told Theo Usherwood.
One theory inside the UK military is that the US may be waiting to assess the impact or the consequences of the Ukrainian operation into Russia before making a decision, although they said they expected the matter to be quickly resolved.
A member of Ukraine’s defence committee told The Times that Ukraine had been forced to undertake its cross-border operation into Kursk due to the west’s refusal to allow Kyiv to use long-range cruise missiles on targets in Russia,
President Zelensky has repeatedly requested permission to use American-donated ATACMS and British Storm Shadows to strike targets deep within Russia, but each time has been rebuffed over fears that it could lead to an escalation in the conflict.
Solomiia Bobrovska, a Ukrainian MP, said that Russian gains made on the eastern front since the start of this year could have been stopped had Ukraine been able to use these weapons to destroy military and logistics targets deep behind the frontlines.
The assault on the Russian region of Kursk, now entering its 12th (AS OF SAT) day, she said, was a defensive action necessitated by Russia’s incremental but steady progress, and the continual aerial attacks on its civilians who live in cities close to the border, such as Sumy and Kharkiv.
Bobrovska last week returned from Washington where she was representing the Ukrainian parliament’s defence and security committee to press American senators and congressmen to allow for the use of ATACMS.
“If we had been allowed to use these long-range missiles in Russia, we would have been able to prevent a lot of their attacks and offensive operations,” she said. “And I truly believe that the map now would be like it was in 2023, or even better.”
She said that Britain and the US’s refusal to grant permission amounted to a “betrayal” of the security guarantees that Ukraine was given as part of the Budapest memorandum in 1994 in return for destroying the nuclear weapons left in the country following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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We wonder how Elon Musk will comment on this?
Considering that war criminal Kadyrov is under US sanctions, that doesn't look like a good ad campaign for Tesla Cybertruck.
As for Kadyrov's claim that Elon Musk gave it to him and that he will send it for use in the war against Ukraine, well that would make Musk and/or Tesla a sponsor of war.
Then there is the question of US export controls..
Messages left with Tesla by Associated Press and Reuters, seeking a comment, were not immediately returned.
"Elon Musk, the Don, Will Be Pleased" - Kadyrov Shows Tesla Cybertruck With Machine Gun. Chechen Leader Says He's Going to Send the Vehicle to War in Ukraine
"I was pleased to test the new equipment and personally saw that it is not by chance that it is called the "Cyberbeast". A real invulnerable and fast animal. <…> Based on such excellent characteristics, the cybertruck will soon be sent to the SVO zone, where it will be in demand in the appropriate conditions," Ramzan Kadyrov's Telegram channel said.
In the message, Kadyrov says that he received the Cybertruck from Elon Musk and thanked the Tesla owner, inviting him to Grozny.
The situation at the front as of 10 p.m Kyiv time
During the current day, 98 combat clashes took place.
▪️ On the Kharkiv direction, Russian terrorists stormed the positions of our units in the Vovchansk and Lyptsi districts 6 times. The battle is still going on in Vovchansk. According to the currently available information, the Ukrainian defenders in the Kharkiv direction eliminated and wounded more than 60 occupiers, destroyed a tank, an armored combat vehicle, 2 artillery systems, 28 unmanned aerial vehicles, 4 units of automobiles and 2 units of special equipment, 3 artillery systems were also damaged, 3 cars and 6 units of the occupier's special equipment.
▪️ 8 times the enemy attacked our positions in the Kupyan direction. The situation is tense, 3 skirmishes are ongoing.
▪️ In the Lyman direction, Russian troops attacked 17 times during the day. At this time, 2 skirmishes continue.
▪️ In the Seversky direction, the enemy attacked 7 times. All attacks were repelled, the enemy had no success.
▪️ In the Kramatorsk direction, 4 attacks were repelled, 2 clashes are ongoing. The situation is under control.
▪️ 9 skirmishes ended in the Toretsk direction. Fighting continues in 5 more locations.
▪️ In the Pokrovsky direction, the aggressor attacked 35 times. Ukrainian defenders have already repelled 20 attacks, 15 more clashes are ongoing. Today, the occupiers lost more than 270 servicemen killed and wounded in this direction; tank and 6 cars - destroyed. Also, the Ukrainian defenders caused significant damage to 4 artillery systems, an anti-aircraft missile system, a tank and 12 enemy vehicles.
▪️ In the Kurakhiv direction, our defenders repelled 4 enemy attempts to attack our positions. 2 skirmishes are currently underway. The situation is under control.
▪️ In the Vremivsk direction, the aggressor once tried to storm the front edge of the defense in the direction of Vugledar. Ukrainian soldiers stopped the enemy's attack.
▪️ In the Dnieper direction, the 1st assault action of the enemy was not successful. Loss of positions is not allowed - General Staff of the Armed Forces.
Don-old Trump has been wading in it for months. But now he stepped off a ledge and he is drowning in it.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trump-really-did-step-in-it/57759/
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Another video from this morning's despicable attack:
Russia attacked Sumy centre with ballistic missiles.
At 6 o'clock this morning, the russians launched a rocket attack on the residential quarter of Sumy. The rocket hit a carpark.
2 people were injured, 10 cars were destroyed by fire, at least 5 more were damaged. In the city, a headquarters was deployed to help victims of the attack.
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More from the anonymous military analyst about Kursk. Again, not very positive. What do you think?
OBJECTIVE REVEALED
This morning has seen a whole series of Ukrainian statements placing the Kursk offensive squarely in negotiation ploy category. From the president to the CinC, talk of an ‘(territorial) exchange fund’, ‘negotiations on our own terms’ and so on have been coming pretty thickly.
The destruction of key bridges that will protect the Ukrainian positions and hamper Russian movements tends to indicate that in places, the offensive has peaked, while it drives on in others.
If this pans out as I suspect this will be the order of things.
1. Partial consolidation in sectors easily defended. While deeper sectors have their comms and supply lines bolstered.
2. Some areas will continue to push forward but the steam is running out as lines reach maximum viable supply points.
3. Those areas will then try to consolidate.
4. The Russians will take their time to prepare a counter offensive.
5. Ukraine withdraws the elite units it used to spearhead the operation to shore up defences in the eastern front regions.
6. The Russians launch their counter attack and slowly but surely the Ukrainians loose what they have taken.
7. The worst scenario is that the front caves in because it’s too wide, and then you have Russians coming over the border in an area you have to defend, that if you had never started this, they would never be.
I appreciate this is a very negative view of things but this is what I am most afraid of. Long term, unless something drastic and dramatic happens in Russia, I can’t see anything else. How else is this to go? It’s just widened the front and left Ukraine’s valuable newly mobilised forces not reinforcing the desperate eastern front, but spread out propping up this collapsing bubble.
I am seriously worried this has opened up more than Ukraine can cope with.
Unless the Russians make some appallingly bad decisions and screw things up really badly, which given their form is quite possible, does anyone see this ending well? It could be two months maybe three or more, but if this front becomes a burden, its strategic value is worthless.
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Germany issues an arrest warrant for the blowing up of Nord Stream.
https://kyivindependent.com/germany-issues-arrest-warrant-over-nord-stream/
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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