Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister who has emerged as a major Russia hawk, said in an interview last week that the West is fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine and the biggest problem has been the reluctance to escalate the conflict.
Ukrainian forces last week fired the U.K.-provided Storm Shadow missiles to strike targets inside Russia after receiving permission from the West to use long-range missiles to hit Russian targets.
President Joe Biden’s decision last week to give Ukraine the green light to use U.S.-provided long-range missiles to strike Russian targets was widely embraced in capitals across Europe that were Washington's lead on the matter.
The Biden administration announced last week that it will provide Ukraine with antipersonnel landmines in an effort to help Kyiv slow down Russian troop advancements in the east.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, used last week’s hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine as a reason why Europeans should come out forcefully against further weapons support for Kyiv.
Estonia’s top diplomat said in an interview last week that European leaders need to consider populating Ukraine with soldiers if Donald Trump makes good on his campaign promise to bring a swift resolution to the war.
The French government announced Saturday that it gave Ukraine the green light to use the long-range SCALP missiles that Paris provided to strike targets deep inside Russia as part of the West’s latest escalation before Donald Trump takes office in the U.S.
Donald Trump said last week that he stood behind House Speaker Mike Johnson—an evangelical Christian fully committed to Israel.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, best known for playing the piano with no hands, rushed to X on Friday in hopes of dashing any progress toward peace German Chancellor Olaf Scholz may have made during his hour-long phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ukraine looks like it’s sending the incoming Trump administration a message: keep up the weapons support, or we’ll go nuclear against Russia.