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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 13 announced plans for a new wave of long-range strikes on Russian territories.
“We are preparing new long-range strikes. We will also continue to respond harshly and consistently to every Russian attack on Ukrainians. In particular, the Commander-in-Chief reported the completely justified destruction of Russian killers who took the life of a one-year-old boy in the Kherson region,” Zelensky said in a statement after a meeting with senior commanders and the minister of defense.
In recent months, Ukraine stepped up its drone attacks on Russian territories. However, the attacks were mostly foiled by Russian air defenses.
Zelensky’s new remarks came right after United States Senator Lindsey Graham stated that he expects that the pace and volume of Western arms supplies to Ukraine to reach record levels soon.
Graham was asked on CBS News’ Face the Nation whether U.S. President Donald Trump could use about $3.85 billion allocated by the former Joe Biden administration through the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) mechanism, which allows the head of state to supply weapons to a foreign partner without congressional approval in case of an emergency by decree.
“I expect him to exercise the PDA authority,” Graham responded, noting these funds would not be enough.
“I expect in the coming days you will see weapons flowing at a record level to help Ukraine defend themselves. I expect in the coming days that there will be tariffs and sanctions available to President Trump he’s never had before,” Graham added, describing possible restrictive measures as “a sledgehammer available to President Trump.”
According to the senator, who is one of the authors of the bill on new sanctions against Russia, restrictions can be applied primarily to China, India and Brazil.
The issue of arms supplies was also among the matters Zelensky discussed with his commanders in their latest meetings.
All in all, Ukraine appears to be preparing for a major escalation against Russia with backing from the U.S. and other allies. It is highly unlikely that Kiev will be able to do anything meaningful. Still, Russia will have to respond in kind. The looming escalation could kill the peace talks which Trump himself pushed for.
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this means there will be many new russian volunteers soon💯
russians are getting impatient, if zelenskyy does something extremely stupid such as hitting the crimean bridge or any other strategic targets, putin and other moderates in russian leadership may have to take the gloves off. ukraine is running out of air defense. latest footage has shown those shahed-geran, fifty cent, dorito drones hitting deep inside ukraine during daylight and night.
the one thousand missile-drone blitz on ukraine is just a matter of time.
take ramstein off the map.
why? i like ramstein . du. du hast. du hast mich
russia should attack all maida regime staff! they are mere terrorist not political &administrative leaders
omg. there’s one target russua will have to take out, and then risk hell unleashed or just carry on and be taken over eventually anyway. it’s crystal clear. either putin dies of old age and the war ends or the nato gets bored and invades and he gets executed as a war criminal. that’s the only options imo.
“moderates in russian leadership may have to take the gloves off.”… ??? been the longest running burlesk going on 12 years in the history of warfare!
they’re plain idiots.
haha. the bridge has been struck repeatedly for years now. nothing will happen. jewtin and zelensky are only around to get paid to ensure that goyim slaughter each other.
it’s repeats always has been since the vatican let luther serve the german prince’s by creating protestantism as excuse for persecutions and wars. its always the same they create a motive, eg religious differences to defend their war crimes. justify them, its theatre. imo
don’t you get bored with seeing repeats?
oreshnik to berlin… right in the face of this judeopathics!
suckers for bs dumb as.
course he just got back from visiting the pope.
advancing 500 meters on the front line in 1 year is superb, attacking civilian targets at random, that’s what they are experts at, trump changed the game, 950.00 russian cannon fooder