'Now is the moment to double down on our military support.' Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says Ukraine 'needs a military strategy to win the war, and a political strategy to win the peace' in a speech to world leaders. Latest: 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Rishi Sunak calls on world leaders to"double down on military support."The United Kingdom will be the first country to provide Ukraine with longer-range weapons, he says."Russia must also be held to account for the terrible destruction it has inflicted," he says.12:08:52Russia has committed"crimes against humanity" in Ukraine, said US secretary of state Antony Blinken.
He is expected to ask other leaders to match the UK's efforts in helping Ukraine win the war against Russia. He appears to be mounting a counteroffensive information campaign against the Russian ministry of defence after being sidelined in recent weeks, according to analysis by the Institute for the Study of War.
It wrote:"Prigozhin became such an influential figure in the pro-war ultranationalist community by directing veiled and outright criticism at the conventional Russian establishment and by promoting the Wagner Group as an elite force that could secure tactical gains that the regular Russian military could not.
The threat of a boycott from major nations would be enough to persuade the International Olympic Committee to reconsider, he said. She compared the need in Ukraine to the scale of production required to create and distribute Covid vaccines. Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has met with German defence manufacturer Rheinmetall today to discuss future supplies of tanks and armoured vehicles.Putin's 'imperial ambitions beyond Ukraine clear' after Belarus deal
"The West sometimes ignores Putin's activities that appear trivial, but [those] seemingly trivial activities that fly under the radar are essential to Putin’s strategic gains in the long run."
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