The Kremlin warns: the delivery of long-range weapons to Kyiv leads to a dangerous escalation

Ukraine urges the West to supply it with tanks and defenses.. "We don't have time."

Zelensky reiterated his intention to liberate the territories controlled by Russia, including Crimea.

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Ukraine urged its Western allies yesterday to expedite supplying it with tanks and air defenses, saying, "We do not have time, and the world does not have this time." While the Kremlin warned that Western countries' delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine capable of targeting the depth of Russian territory would lead to a dangerous escalation in the conflict. The armed conflict between Moscow and Kiev, and his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia does not intend to change its military doctrine and the use of nuclear weapons.

In detail, the director of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak, wrote on the "Telegram" application, appealing to Kyiv's Western allies to expedite supplying it with tanks and air defenses, "We do not have time, and the world does not have this time."

Yermak said that Ukrainians are paying with their lives for the slow pace of discussions in capitals abroad.

Ukraine mentioned 12 countries, including Turkey and Germany, which have Leopard tanks that Kyiv has been asking for for some time.

"We appeal to all partner countries that have previously provided military assistance or are studying this possibility, in which we urge them to significantly enhance their contribution," the Ukrainian ministers of defense and foreign affairs, Olessky Reznikov and Dmytro Kuleba, said in a joint statement.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Germany's reluctance to provide Ukraine with heavy tanks of its own making, on the eve of an important meeting of the Ukrainian Contact Group in Ramstein, Germany, to coordinate further assistance to Kiev.

"There are times when we should not hesitate or compare," Zelensky said via video link during a breakfast on the sidelines of the Davos Economic Forum in Switzerland.

As if someone says, I will give tanks if another party does so.

The Ukrainian president was referring to media reports that Berlin would not give Ukraine heavy tanks unless the United States sent Abrams tanks.

"I don't think this is the right strategy to follow," Zelensky said, referring to Berlin, which is under increasing pressure from a number of European countries to allow the delivery of Leopard tanks.

On the other hand, Zelensky reiterated his intention to liberate all the territories controlled by Russia, including Crimea, which it annexed in 2014. In parallel, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, announced that he had discussed in Kyiv new measures to support Ukraine with Zelensky.

"Ukrainians are fighting for their land and for the future of their children," he said on Twitter.

But they are also fighting for our shared European values ​​of peace and prosperity.

They need and deserve our support.”

In a related matter, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said yesterday that his country intends to send 600 Brimstone missiles to Ukraine to support it in confronting Russia.

The remarks came during the minister's meeting with his counterparts at the Taba military base in Estonia.

Ben Wallace gave details of a previously announced package of military support to Ukraine, including sending Challenger tanks, as well as details of the types of missiles Britain would provide.

For its part, Sweden has decided to supply Ukraine with long-range, mobile and modern Archer guns that Kyiv has been demanding for several months, according to Prime Minister Ulf Christerson.

On the other hand, the Kremlin warned yesterday that the delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine by Western countries capable of targeting the depth of Russian territory would lead to a dangerous escalation in the armed conflict between Moscow and Kiev.

"This matter may be very dangerous. It will mean that the conflict will move to a new level that does not bode well for European security," said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian presidency.

Peskov stressed that Russia does not intend to change its military doctrine and the use of nuclear weapons, according to the Russian agency Interfax.

The statement came in the context of Peskov's comment on a post published by the former president and deputy head of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, on his official channel on the "Telegram" application, in which he wrote that Russia's defeat in a conventional war could lead to a nuclear war.

Medvedev had said that the nuclear powers do not lose major conflicts on which their fate depends.

Russia Today Network stated that this statement came as a comment on the prevalent assumption in the West, according to which "Russia must be defeated in the war."

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