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Zelensky: “The Europeans must guarantee the promised weapons”
“European leaders must guarantee the millions of rounds of ammunition promised last year,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the press conference following the bilateral meeting this morning in Tallinn with his Estonian counterpart Kaja Kallas. In this context, Zelensky called on Western leaders not to limit themselves to rhetorical statements, but to provide military assistance to Ukraine in making concrete decisions. The Ukrainian President also reiterated that his country needs further concrete guarantees for Ukraine's future membership in NATO and EU structures, which are considered the only long-term security guarantees for the country. Estonian Prime Minister Kallas reiterated the invitation to European and NATO partners to follow the example of Estonia, which will transfer 0.25% of GDP to Ukraine between 2024 and 2027.
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Medvedev: If Kiev fires missiles at Russia, Moscow can respond with nuclear weapons
If Kiev uses long-range missiles supplied by the West against launch sites in Russia, Moscow could respond with nuclear weapons. Former President Dmitry Medvedev writes this on his Telegram channel. The implementation of such a plan by Kiev could be viewed as “an aggression against the Russian Federation with conventional weapons that endangers the existence of the state” and therefore trigger a nuclear retaliation, Medvedev said. “All the heirs of Hitler, Mussolini, Pétain and the others who support the Nazis in Kiev in Europe today must remember this,” he concludes.