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Russian leader's speech marks biggest escalation of Ukraine war, and raises fears of unprecedented disaster.

The offering of bribes to dodge the army, already a flourishing industry before the war, will probably become much more common in the coming weeks. “Russia’s repressed society will accept this obediently,” said Andrei Kolesnikov, of the Carnegie Moscow Center thinktank. “I can’t keep on fighting for ever. According to a government decree posted on the Kremlin’s website, the contracts of soldiers currently fighting in Ukraine will be automatically extended “until the end of the partial mobilisation” period. Many responded to these efforts, with polls consistently Since the start of the war, Putin has sought to shield his population from the realities of the war, with the Kremlin eager to cultivate a sense of normality on the streets of Moscow and other major cities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a “partial mobilization,” calling up 300000 reservists, in a major escalation of his flagging invasion of Ukraine, ...

Ukraine, which declared a mobilization early in the war, now has around 700,000 in the field with months of training and has said it aims to create a million-strong army. The mobilization order and nuclear threats “represent a major escalation but in the short-term it’s unlikely this is going to change the dynamics on the front line,” said Oksana Antonenko, a director at Control Risks in London. Russian forces have suffered from low morale that has worsened since the recent reverses. The additional troops would be more than the approximately 180,000 that the US estimated Russia had massed at Ukraine’s borders before the Feb. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the mobilization “an act of desperation.” He told reporters in New York, “Russia can’t win this criminal war. Kyiv now has more troops armed with advanced weapons supplied by the US and its allies.

Ukrainian troops pushed back Russian attacks near nine settlements, according to the statement. Russia shelled the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant overnight, ...

He vowed more support for Ukraine’s army and intelligence service, “for everyone who is gradually restoring our territorial integrity,” according to his statement. The US and its allies, he said, are seeking to “destroy” Russia. “That’s not a bluff.” The partial mobilisation will mean that reservists will be drafted into military service, Putin said, starting immediately. He pledged more support for Ukraine’s army and intelligence service, “for everyone who is gradually restoring our territorial integrity,” according to his statement. Brent rose as high as $92.57 a barrel in the London morning, a gain of about $1.75 from where it was before the news. Russian President Vladimir Putin called a “partial mobilisation” and vowed to annex territories his forces are occupying.

President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial military mobilisation and vowed on Wednesday to use “all available means” to protect Russian territory, ...

“Putin does not want to win this war on the battlefield. This is not a bluff,” Putin said. In a pre-recorded address to the nation early on Wednesday, Putin accused the West of trying to “destroy” his country through its backing of Kyiv, and said Russia needed to support those in Ukraine who wanted to “determine their own future”.

In a televised address to the nation on Wednesday, the Russian president said Russia's armed forces would call up its reserves immediately to support its ...

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Yongerako y’uko ijambo ryiwe ari “ibindi binyoma vya Putin”. Uwuserukira Reta Zunze Ubumwe za Amerika muri Ukraine avuga ko kubona Perezida Putin atumako ingabo z’integabizoza vyerekana “inguvu nke”. Avuga ko Uburusiya “buzokoresha uburyo bwose bufise mu gukingira Uburusiya mu gihe ubusugire bwabwo buzoba bugeramiwe”. Umushikiranganji w’Ubwongereza ajejwe imigenderanire, Gillian Keegan, avuga ko amajambo ya Perezida Putin aho agabisha ko afise ibirwanisho vyinshi “ateye ubwoba”. - Putin avuga ko Uburusiya bufise “ibirwanisho vyinshi vyo kwivuna” kandi ko atariko arajajura. Perezida Vladimir Putin w’Uburusiya avuga ko ari nkenerwa ko hafatwa ingingo yihuta yo gukingira abanyagihugu mu “turere twabohojwe”.

Putin's address to the nation comes a day after Russian-controlled regions in eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans to hold votes on becoming ...

The laws are expected to win approval of the upper house and Putin. national security adviser Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, said Russia would manipulate "sham" results to annex the land. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the voting as “noise” and thanked Ukraine’s allies for condemning the votes. Referendums have been discussed for weeks, but voting had not been expected until November. But the conflict he had hoped would be completed in weeks has dragged on for seven months with Ukraine has blamed Russia for the bombings, which international regulators warn could trigger a nuclear disaster.

President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's first wartime mobilisation since World War Two on Wednesday, shocking his countrymen with what Western countries ...

In his speech to the U.N. "He wants to smear hundreds of thousands of people in this blood." A new sign of RU weakness," tweeted Mark Hertling, a former commander of U.S. If a man is driving, they inspect; if it's a woman, they ask her to open the luggage compartment. In the city of Kursk, closer to Ukraine, a woman married to a soldier said: "They're not letting people out of Kursk. Biden, in a speech to world leaders at the U.N. If the man is from Kursk, they turn you back." In a note seen by Reuters, one major company told staff: "We already have employees who have received summonses for tomorrow. They should know that "the weathervane can turn towards them", he said. It's not a bluff." Russians said some people were already receiving call-up notices, and police were barring men from leaving one city in the south. Offering no evidence, Putin accused officials in NATO states of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Russia.

US president says Russia's planned annexation of more regions is an 'extremely significant violation' of UN charter.

“The Kremlin is organising a sham referendum to try to annex parts of Ukraine, an extremely significant violation of the UN charter. The Russian leader and his senior officials have made a string of similar nuclear threats since launching the invasion in February, in an effort to deter Nato countries from intervening. In his speech, Putin gave support to those ballots in the parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia runder Russian control. “This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state, plain and simple, and Ukraine’s right to exist as a people. The announcement triggered an exodus of Russian men scrambling to avoid the draft. [Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/putin-announces-partial-mobilisation-in-russia-in-escalation-of-ukraine-war) and pledged to maintain support for Ukraine’s support in the face of Russia’s partial mobilisation and planned annexation of more Ukrainian regions.

The success of Ukrainian forces in reclaiming swaths of their country brought jubilation, followed by concern over how Vladimir Putin — humiliated, ...

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And Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government have often framed the conflict as a life-or-death struggle against Western military, economic and ...

“Any country who is considering using nuclear weapons for a coercive purpose or tactical purpose is going to have to consider the ramifications of breaking the nuclear taboo,” Kathryn Boehlefeld, who teaches at the School for Advanced Nuclear Deterrence at the U.S. … That is only going to be used to be followed up by a coercive threat that if Ukraine doesn’t negotiate and if the United States doesn’t negotiate on behalf of Ukraine, that Russia will then proceed to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.” [launch this war in the first place](https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/01/10/invading-ukraine-would-be-a-terrible-idea-for-putin-he-might-do-it-anyway/). A [2020 study by the Center for Naval Analyses](https://www.cna.org/archive/CNA_Files/pdf/drm-2019-u-022455-1rev.pdf) of Russian strategic thinking around nuclear weapons referred to this as “deterrence by intimidation.” When the Russian government now says that long-range missiles would cross a “ [red line](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-longer-range-us-missiles-kyiv-would-cross-red-line-2022-09-15/)” that would make Western countries a party to the war, it’s worth keeping in mind that Putin once said the same thing about [any lethal aid to Ukraine](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/deployment-of-offensive-weapons-in-ukraine-red-line-for-russia-putin/2435100). As Grid has [previously reported](https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/04/29/what-is-a-tactical-nuke-and-would-putin-use-one/), this is somewhat misleading: There are few “tactical” targets for Russian nukes in this war. [“tactical” nuclear weapons,](https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-urges-putin-not-use-tactical-nuclear-arms-ukraine-cbs-interview-2022-09-17/) which generally refers to smaller, shorter-range weapons used to gain an advantage on the battlefield rather than inflict damage on an opponent’s society. [warned earlier this month that](https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-mikhail-gorbachev-dmitry-medvedev-6d21d606fdbcc45c128120796b0d8307) Western powers were trying to break Russia apart, saying, “a forceful disintegration of a nuclear power is always a chess game with Death, in which it’s known precisely when the check and mate comes: doomsday for mankind.” He added that “the best guarantee of safeguarding the Great Russia” is its nuclear arsenal. [the legislation](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-passes-law-declaring-itself-nuclear-weapons-state-kcna-2022-09-08/) passed by North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament earlier this month, which declared that it would launch its nuclear weapons if the existence of the country or its government were under threat. The talk of “all the forces of self-defense,” taken together with Putin’s warning of “various means of destruction,” suggest the possibility of a Russian nuclear response looms larger than it has since the war began. Despite the success of Ukraine’s recent offensive around Kharkiv, there may still be much more fighting to come in this war, and a Russian defeat is still far from inevitable. In his address to the nation Tuesday, Putin did so again, and added a not-so-veiled reminder about his nuclear option.

First Russian mobilisation since World War II, threatens to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia. By Pavel Polityuk, Humeyra Pamuk and Caleb Davis, Reuters 21 ...

“Placing ‘newbies’ on a front line that has been mauled, has low morale & who don’t want to be (there) portends more RU disaster.” A new sign of RU weakness,” tweeted Mark Hertling, a former commander of U.S. In his speech to the U.N. “He wants to smear hundreds of thousands of people in this blood.” If a man is driving, they inspect; if it’s a woman, they ask her to open the luggage compartment. “Wherever you are, wherever you live, whatever you believe…. Biden, in a speech to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly, Biden said Russia had violated the U.N. In the city of Kursk, closer to Ukraine, a woman married to a soldier said: “They’re not letting people out of Kursk. In a note seen by Reuters, one major company told staff: “We already have employees who have received summonses for tomorrow. If the man is from Kursk, they turn you back.” They should know that “the weathervane can turn towards them”, he said.

President Joe Biden excoriated Vladimir Putin for making 'overt nuclear threats' to Europe as the Russian leader escalated his seven-month war in Ukraine ...

“And we enjoy the full support of our partners in this.” DM The US and its allies, he said, were seeking to “destroy” Russia. “For me and for the federal government it’s in any case clear that we will continue to fully support Ukraine at this difficult time.” “Putin is tormenting a neighbouring country, killing people there, and now he is throwing a huge number of Russian citizens into the meat grinder of war,” Navalny said in a video posted by his organisation. He vowed more support for Ukraine’s army and intelligence service, “for everyone who is gradually restoring our territorial integrity”, according to his statement. “That’s not a bluff.” The partial mobilisation will mean that reservists will be drafted into military service, Putin said, starting immediately. “China’s position on the Ukraine crisis is consistent and clear,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press briefing in Beijing. Speaking on the sidelines of military exercises with US and UK troops in Nowa Deba, southern Poland, Morawiecki said he would seek support from leaders in Western Europe for additional supplies to Kyiv. Russian forces pounded the dam at the Pechenihy water reservoir in the Kharkiv region, and local authorities warned of a risk of “catastrophic flooding of territories”, Unian said. “With the latest decision, Putin and Russia are only making things much worse,” Scholz told reporters in New York. He condemned Russia’s “sham referendums” and Putin’s renewal of a nuclear threat. “We will stay calm and continue to provide support to Ukraine.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told German media he does not believe Russia will use nuclear weapons, after President Vladimir Putin said Moscow ...

"He needs an army of millions... No one will forgive him." "I don't believe that he will use these weapons," Zelensky told the TV station of Germany's Bild newspaper, referring to nuclear arms. "Battle tanks mean that more people's lives can be saved." We cannot make these compromises," he said. - He said he believes Putin has "already lost the war".

Russian leader has 'shamelessly violated the core tenants of the United Nations Charter,' says US president - Anadolu Agency.

[Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. Our sanctions explicitly allow Russia the ability to export food and fertilizer, no limitation," he said. Putin and his regional proxies are seeking to use the polls to claim the territories as part of Russia. "Russia's war is worsening food insecurity, and only Russia can end it." Putin announced earlier Wednesday a mass mobilization in Russia of 300,000 reservists to support his flagging war effort in Ukraine. "Now, Russia's calling up more soldiers to join the fight.

In the last 24 hours, a series of important announcements have been made by Russia regarding the war in Ukraine: partial mobilisation affecting 300000 ...

The aim of partial mobilisation is to allow Russia to achieve its immediate aims in the war. Putin is certainly using economic means to put pressure on Europe and is calculating that the social turmoil caused by high energy prices and the cost of living crisis in general will push European governments towards a more conciliatory position, for fear of being removed. The fact that Kyiv has threatened those who participate with jail sentences of up to 12 years and confiscation of property, or the earlier threat of 15 years jail for any Ukrainians in the Russian occupied territories who applied for a Russian passport, would confirm that this is the case. In comparison to NATO or US imperialism, Russia is only a middle-sized regional power, however it is one which possesses nuclear weapons and as Putin reminded them, some very technologically advanced means of delivering them. If the war is prolonged and the number of body bags returning from the front starts to pile up, then opposition to the war will inevitably grow amongst the families of the soldiers. The calculation is that 300,000 troops, almost trebling the current number, will be enough to achieve his objectives in Ukraine while at the same time limiting the potential political implications in terms of popular opposition to the war if things go wrong. There have been constant statements from Washington about being at war with Russia and even Biden declared that the aim was regime change in Moscow. The decision to hold referendums in the four regions has a dual purpose. This is a significant step aimed to address the main Russian weakness in the war in Ukraine: its limited amount of manpower. By calling it a “special military operation” Putin wanted to give the impression that this was going to be a short lived, limited affair and insulate public opinion from the war. This is designed as a threat to the newly mobilised troops to obey orders. This was a factor all along, but the situation became worse with the Western delivery of rocket launchers and artillery pieces, particularly the HIMARs.

In interview with German TV, the Ukrainian leader repeated calls for Berlin to supply Ukraine with more heavy weapons.

Annexation referendums set to be held in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine were “sham referendums”, Zelenskyy said, adding that 90 percent of states would not recognise them. “He needs an army of millions … Moscow and separatists control large swaths of Ukraine’s northeast region, which is approximately 15 percent of its total territory. Putin “wants to drown Ukraine in blood, also the blood of his own soldiers”, Zelenskyy said. Zelenskyy stressed he did not accept the German government’s argument that it was not providing Ukraine with tanks because it does not want to “go it alone”, as no NATO country has supplied it with Western-made battle tanks so far. [ don’t think the world will allow him to use these weapons](/news/2022/9/18/dont-dont-dont-biden-presses-putin-on-nuclear-weapons),” Zelenskyy said in an interview to TV channel of Germany Bild newspaper, referring to nuclear arms.

UK PM spurns Russian president's 'sabre-rattling' as she prepares call for democratic renewal in UN address.

His assaults on the UN charter and international norms that protect us will not be tolerated and he must withdraw from Ukraine to enable a return to regional and global stability.” “We need to keep improving and renewing what we do for the new era, demonstrating that democracy delivers.” “He is doubling down by sending even more reservists to a terrible fate.

The U.S. should not treat the Global South's welcoming of multipolarity as anti-Americanism. Photo diptych: Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi.

In reality, it is to a large part of the world the result of the United States squandering its power through reckless military interventions and misguided foreign policy adventurism. Rather than compelling them to side with America, we will push them into the arms of Putin — where they clearly don’t want to be. Nor will China be able to dictate the rules of the road because it too will have to face off against the competition in a multipolar world. [declaration of the partial mobilization of military reservists](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-announces-partial-mobilization-russian-military-ukraine-war-rcna48585) — a decision he's [hesitated to make up to this point](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/russia-ukraine-war-could-escalate-after-ukraine-s-counteroffensive-n1298884) — signifies the depth of Russia's military setbacks in Ukraine. “Today we will get a chance to discuss how we can move forward on the path of peace in the coming days.” (After all, the U.S. [More than half of Russia's seaborne oil exports](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-60783874) now go to India and China. Yet the U.S. India was not alone in pressing Putin to end the war. But India’s rebuke of Putin shows that the U.S. [India subtly rebuked him](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-vladimir-putin-narendra-modi-uzbekistan-rcna48084) for continuing the war. But India’s criticism shouldn’t be misread: India was not siding with the Western coalition against Russia in its criticism, just like it wasn’t siding with Russia when [it refused to join anti-Russia sanctions at the outset of the war](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ukraine-russia-war-looks-very-different-outside-west-n1294280).

The dollar jumped to a new two-decade high on Wednesday, as comments from Russia's President Vladimir Putin rattled markets ahead of another likely ...

The Australian and New Zealand dollars meanwhile hit multi-year lows on Wednesday. “A concern about an escalation in the conflict is hurting European currencies. The Aussie hit a trough of $0.6655, its lowest since June 2020, while the kiwi fell to $0.5877, its lowest since April 2020. The policy decision, due at 1800 GMT, will mark the latest move in a synchronised policy shift by global central banks that is testing the resilience of the world economy and the ability of countries to manage exchange rate shocks as the value of the dollar soars. The euro fell to a two-week low of $0.9885, within sight of two-decade lows hit earlier this month. The dollar jumped to a new two-decade high on Wednesday, as comments from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin rattled markets ahead of another likely aggressive rate hike from the US Federal Reserve.

Russian President Vladmir Putin announced a partial mobilization of Russian forces as Moscow's army is losing ground in the seventh month of what was meant ...

“We’re seeing the Kremlin increasingly straining to find new recruits to fill out their thin ranks, and the Russians are performing so poorly that the news from Kharkiv province has inspired many Russian volunteers to refuse combat,” a senior U.S. Western officials said that Russia’s ability to field more troops had been growing worse for months, after elite units faced brutal losses in the early days of the war and Russian authorities struggled to replace rising casualties. “Encroachment onto Russian territory is a crime which allows you to use all the forces of self-defense,” former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in a Telegram message on Tuesday morning. It also expanded the circumstances under which the law would apply to include armed conflicts as well as periods of mobilization and martial law during combat activities. But some in the West aren’t clear how quickly the new Russian forces will get to Ukraine, if at all. Many of the Russian troops dispatched to Ukraine thus far have been drawn from poorer families and remote regions of the country. It is likely to deal a serious—if not fatal—blow to Putin’s effort to pitch the war as a “special operation” limited to Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region that has helped to shield the Kremlin from popular criticism. “These are not the actions of a confident country, these are not acts of strength,” he said. “The issue is the Russian army is poorly led [and] poorly trained. Petersburg, crowds began to gather on the streets for the first time since the early days of the war, [chanting](https://twitter.com/bbcrussian/status/1572628595482271744) “no mobilization,” while police [chased](https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1572628952778416129) away demonstrators in downtown Moscow. Some 300,000 Russian reservists and men with previous military experience are expected to be called up to the ranks under a new decree which came into force on Wednesday, but it stops short of a full mobilization. Putin finds himself caught between increasing pressure from Russia’s hawks in the security establishment, who have called for a full-scale mobilization, and fears that doing so could risk domestic political unrest.

Biden administration officials vowed to continue sending military, economic and humanitarian aid to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia.

“Putin is tripling down — first with the mobilization of reservists, second with the false referendums of citizenship for the occupied territories, and third with a largely unveiled threat to use nuclear weapons,” said Adm. “Bottom line, it’s not going to change a lot of the problems the Russian military has had in this war, and the military will be limited as to how many additional forces it can deploy in the field,” Mr. We have not had to do that in over 30 years.” “But it does begin to address the structural problems that Russia has had with manpower shortages and will extend Russia’s ability to sustain this war.” “It will be many months before they can be properly equipped, trained, organized and deployed to Ukraine,” said Frederick B. “And without massive artillery support, these new soldiers will be pure cannon fodder, sitting in cold, wet trenches this winter as Ukrainian forces continue to press.” Michael Kofman, director of Russia studies at CNA, a defense research institute in Arlington, Va., said the Kremlin’s first step would likely be to call up reserve officers and others with more recent military experience to replenish badly depleted units in the field, perhaps in the next month or so. “The announcement and associated threats are another sign that Russia is struggling to salvage its illegal occupation of Ukraine,” Brig. Putin would face a “consequential” response from the United States if he used nuclear weapons, but Mr. The Russian military has been identifying such personnel for months in anticipation of Mr. The United States alone has committed more than $15 billion in weapons and equipment since Russia’s invasion in February, much of which propelled the recent successful Ukrainian counteroffensive in the country’s northeast. Putin said: “If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people.

US President Joe Biden addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the. President Biden's remarks to the U.N. General Assembly, on ...

The U.N. “It is essentially sidelined on most issues, certainly on the major issues of war and peace,” Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former staffer in two U.S. On Wednesday, Zelensky said that he was not surprised by Putin’s announcement—because of all the Russian desertions on the battlefield. In the U.S., only forty-seven per cent of Americans have a favorable view of the U.N., according to a Biden’s surprisingly brief retort to Putin’s declaration that he is expanding the war—on the military and political fronts—reflects the weakness, even dysfunction, of the U.N. This year, the world’s largest annual gathering of heads of state lacked the lustre, leverage, and energy—and even attendance—that usually accompanies it. sanctions against Russia to magnify the economic costs of the war. “Putin claims he had to act because Russia was threatened, but no one threatened Russia and no one other than Russia sought conflict.” Our “blood should run cold” over the “horrifying evidence” of war crimes and other atrocities committed by Putin’s army, Biden said. [Vladimir Putin](https://www.newyorker.com/tag/vladimir-putin) pulled a fast one on [Joe Biden](https://www.newyorker.com/tag/joe-biden) and the world. The United States and European Union both announced this week that they will never recognize Russia’s absorption of any part of Ukraine. In practice, it already is, given the sweeping array of equipment, intelligence, and planning provided by major Western powers. In his seven-minute televised address, Putin also threatened, in thinly veiled terms, to deploy nuclear weapons on the battlefield, where he has begun to suffer serious losses in manpower and territory.

Putin has mobilised reservists and is threatening to use nuclear weapons, but is he serious – and what is really at stake?

[Zoe Williams compellingly](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/sep/21/i-love-you-but-i-dont-want-to-see-you-for-the-next-six-weeks-the-case-for-a-marriage-sabbatical)lays out the case for marriage sabbaticals. See the visual investigation [here](https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2022/sep/21/liverpool-real-madrid-paris-stade-de-france-champions-league). [more than 1,300 people had been arrested](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/russia-protests-more-than-1300-arrested-at-anti-war-demonstrations-ukraine) during anti-war protests in dozens of cities, according to the independent OVD-Info protest monitoring group. [historic court battle against oil and gas company Santos](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/21/tiwi-islanders-win-court-battle-with-santos-over-drilling-in-traditional-waters). In [this piece](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/russians-react-to-vladimir-putin-military-draft-russia-partial-mobilisation), Andrew Roth hears from some of the dismayed Russians who could be affected by the draft, one of whom says: “I’d rather leave than fight in this war.” [pre-prepared before the day of the match](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/sep/21/uefa-pre-prepared-champions-league-final-statement-blaming-late-fans-liverpool), the Guardian has learned. [attacked Crimea](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/21/ukraine-strikes-psychological-blows-game-of-drones-crimea), which is annexed Russia territory,” Peter said. “And those were the briefings from the US – that we’re not going to be deterred, but we can see the dynamics of escalation and we’re not going to overplay our hand. The thinking is that they need to continue to lay down their own lines for what is acceptable and what is not, and ignore Putin’s – not to reward him for his sabre-rattling.” Truss accused Putin of “doubling down” but accused him of “sabre-rattling threats” and concluded: “This will not work.” Biden said Putin’s “overt nuclear threats against Europe” showed “a reckless disregard for the responsibilities of the non-proliferation regime.” [Russia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia)? Chris Cornelius, the founder of Cuadrilla Resources, told the Guardian that he believed the government’s support for it is merely a “political gesture”.

'If nations can pursue their imperial ambitions without consequences, then we put at risk everything this very institution stands for -- everything,' he ...

Biden also announced $2.9 billion in US government assistance to address food insecurity and called on nations to prioritise the issue. The safe-transit deal allows grain shipments to flow out of three of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports blockaded by Russian forces. Putin has warned he may freeze oil and gas exports in response to a cap. His administration approved $600 million in additional weaponry from US stockpiles as it seeks to add momentum to Ukrainian forces’ recent counteroffensive against Russian troops in the northeast Kharkiv region. Kyiv has gained the military advantage against Moscow with a lightning offensive as Europe grapples with an unprecedented energy crisis that could test US allies’ willingness to maintain the pressure campaign on Putin. “This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state, plain and simple.

On the morning of September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization. He also voiced support for the sham referenda, ...

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And he underlined his threat to use nuclear weapons: “Russia will use all the instruments at its disposal to counter a threat against its territorial integrity.

The course of the war has underlined the limits of Russia’s power, tested the patience of its allies, and cemented the capacity of the West to challenge its actions. Clive Crook is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and member of the editorial board covering economics. But it has been a grave mistake throughout for the US and its friends to defer as much as they have to Ukraine’s judgment of what’s at stake and how much risk to run. Yet he is expected to parse the pros and cons of “escalating to de-escalate” as prudence demands. Supposing the threats and counter-threats evolve in that direction, note a worrisome dissonance in much of the analysis of Putin’s calculations. This is not a bluff.” Soon that notion of territorial integrity might include areas Russia currently occupies and intends to annex.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists Wednesday, taking a risky and deeply unpopular step that follows humiliating ...

The war in Ukraine, which has killed thousands of people, has driven up food prices worldwide and caused energy costs to soar. The partial mobilization order came a day after Russian-controlled regions in eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans for referendums on becoming integral parts of Russia — a move that could eventually allow Moscow to escalate the war. And now the war has come into their home.” “To those who allow themselves such statements regarding Russia, I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction ... Neither Shoigu nor Putin offered any other criteria for the call-up, so it wasn’t immediately clear how many years of combat experience or what level of training those to be mobilized must have. The state communication watchdog Roskomnadzor also warned media that access to their websites would be blocked for transmitting “false information” about the mobilization. The balloting is all but certain to go Moscow’s way. The total number of reservists to be called up could be as high as 300,000, officials said. He has previously told the West not to back Russia against the wall and has rebuked NATO countries for supplying weapons to Ukraine. As protest calls circulated online, the Moscow prosecutor’s office warned that organizing or participating in such actions could lead to up to 15 years in prison. The move also sent Russians scrambling to buy plane tickets out of the country and reportedly sparked some demonstrations. However, Putin's decree authorizing the partial mobilization offered few details, raising suspicions among analysts and Kremlin critics that the draft could be broadened at any moment.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued another grave warning to the West after his country's military suffered a series of embarrassing setbacks in ...

In a statement to The Associated Press, Sergii Nikiforov said conscripts sent to the front line in Ukraine would face a similar fate as the ill-prepared Russian forces who were repelled in their attack on Kyiv in the first days of the war. And now the war has come into their home,” he told the AP. “This is a further escalation in Putin’s war. World peace is in jeopardy.” “We will stand in solidarity against Russia’s aggression. “I want to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction …

The Russian leader has already lost several big bets in Ukraine. He may be taking his largest risk yet by mobilizing more troops and pushing ahead with ...

"Ukraine wants peace, Europe wants peace, the world wants peace, and we have seen who is the only one who wants war," Zelenskkyy added. Even now, Russia and its separatist allies in Ukraine have not publicly addressed any of the obvious questions. This is to distract from Ukraine's effective counteroffensive." So it's not a 'partial mobilization,' it's a gradual mobilization," Baunov said. He said Russia is "trying to extinguish Ukraine's right to exist" and is carrying out a large numbers of war crimes. This was a reference to Putin's remark that Russia has "various means of destruction." This appears to be a nod toward Russians who have misgivings about the military adventure in Ukraine. He wagered that the West and other countries would not act in such a swift and coordinated manner to isolate Russia. Now, he says, "This is not a bluff." But as the fighting raged on, the voting was put off. You can't have a referendum in a place that is currently under military occupation. "There is only one entity among all U.N.