Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the costs of war were high, but the price of letting Moscow achieve its military goals was even greater One reason that countries such as Germany have been reluctant to send heavier weapons to the Ukrainians is that Berlin does not want to give Putin any pretext for escalation Just ask Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose improbable assassination in Sarajevo sparked World War I NATO does not want a full-scale war in Europe, and Russian President Vladimir Putin knows he would lose a conflict with a 30-member military alliance led by the Americans

After liberating a handful of villages in the summer, Ukrainian and Russian forces have been caught in largely attritional battles, with neither side making significant gains To read how Newsweek uses AI as a newsroom tool, Click here You can get in touch with Brendan by emailing or follow on him on his X account brendanmarkcole Brendan joined Newsweek in 2018 from the International Business Times and well as English, knows Russian and French Mark Temnycky, a Ukrainian-American journalist and nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center said that delays in 2023 allowed Russia to fortify positions in the south and east of Ukraine, regroup and re-strategize Despite Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Putin's closest EU ally, vetoing a 55 billion support package from Brussels for Kyiv in mid-December, backing from other European allies has been strong

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President Putin could seek to regain more parts of Russia's former empire by sending troops into ex-Soviet republics like Moldova and Georgia, that are not part of Nato Mr Putin could declare Western arms supplies to Ukrainian forces are an act of aggression that warrant retaliation He could threaten to send troops into the Baltic states - which are members of Nato - such as Lithuania, to establish a land corridor with the Russian coastal exclave of Kaliningrad Joe Gould was the senior Pentagon reporter for Defense News, covering the intersection of national security policy, politics and the defense industry While defense spending in the United States and Europe is trending upward, in large part because of Russia’s attack, industrial capacity to crank out weapons and ammunition has emerged as a bottleneck

"They understand the wider strategic point, which is that this is a confrontation between the West and Russia and at stake is not just the future territorial integrity of Ukraine but the security construct for Europe and the West with Russia," he noted That scenario could embolden critics of the war; increase public discontent with continued funding for Ukraine; and pose a problem in terms of arms production and supplies for the West "I think the danger for Ukrainians is if they really do end up with a stalemate, where they've gained very, very little territory where a lot of the equipment supplied by the West has been written off with Ukrainians having suffered very significant casualties," Shea said Ukraine's counteroffensive is likely to make some progress in the remainder of this year, Barrons said — but nowhere near enough to end the occupation

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“The narrative is the great struggle of the Cold War,” he said, a framing that has helped to attract new recruits Perhaps Italian analyst Lucio Caracciolo was the most pessimistic of all “This war will last indefinitely, with long pauses for cease-fires,” he said At the same time, election season in the United States — Ukraine’s most important backer — stands to spur arguments that a war in Europe of unknown duration is a costly nuisance for America WASHINGTON and ROME — Germany’s promise early this year to send tanks to Ukraine marked the country’s latest concession and provided a cap to the gradual escalation in the kind of equipment allies were supplying

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Industrial-age warfare bends significant parts, or in some cases whole economies, towards the production of war materials as matters of priority Russia's defence budget has tripled since 2021 and will consume 30 of government spending next year The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 saw the return of major war to the European continent The course of the conflict in 2023 marked the fact that industrial-age warfare had returned too

The Pentagon declined to say whether the GLSDB will be used to attack Russian targets in Crimea The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington told Defense News that Ukraine would not strike Russian territory with longer-range weapons pledged by the United States And the near-total control of information by the government is making dissent difficult “Those who are against the war have left, and those who remain are adapting,” Meister said But the sizable swaths of terrain Ukraine wants to liberate will take time, and to even build the necessary forces will take six months, Donahoe estimated The challenge now is training and equipping an armored force big enough and sophisticated enough to envelop Russia’s fighting force

Russia is also massively boosting military spending in 2024, with almost 30 of its fiscal expenditure to be directed toward the armed forces Its military-industrial complex has also ramped up the production of hardware from drones to aircraft Ukrainian forces have adopted a more defensive stance as circumstances dictate; a senior army general warned last week that front-line Ukrainian troops face artillery shortages and have scaled back some military operations because of a shortfall of foreign assistance Weather conditions are deteriorating in Ukraine, withnbsp;mud, freezing rain, snow and ice making offensive and reconnaissance operations challenging

And, nevertheless, the Nazi Kiev regime took this step, pursuing the goal to blame Russia for the destruction of the Ukrainian military "This may indicate deliberate actions by Russia aimed at creating a threat to the life and safety of prisoners," it alleged Ukraine's intelligence agency said it still did not have reliable and comprehensive information about who was on board and the number of passengers "It is obvious that the Russians are playing with the lives of Ukrainian prisoners, with the feelings of their relatives and with the emotions of our society," he said

At the moment, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has riveted the world, drawing more attention than the ongoing slaughters in other nations—a double standard that has been widely noted But that gap in coverage is likely to become even more striking the longer the conflict continues, because the factors that make a long war in Ukraine seemingly inevitable are the same ones that make it unlikely to slip from the world’s collective radar If conflicts in places such as Ethiopia, Palestine, Kashmir, Syria, and Yemen have proved anything, it’s that wars are easy to start, but are also brutal, intractable, and difficult to end The fickle nature of the international media means that protracted conflicts quickly lose the world’s attention, if they ever had it to begin with

Only aircraft deployed to protect energy facilities, or those carrying top Russian or foreign officials, will be allowed to fly with special permission in the designated zones, according to the Vedomosti daily newspaper Unnamed Indian government sources have suggested India wants to distance itself from Russia, according to Reuters news agency Mr Szijarto will be in the western Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba and presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak If the US abandons the military alliance, it will fall to European countries to ensure a Ukrainian victory, Mr OBrien says European countries have largely outsourced much of their military capacity and thinking on strategy and security to the States through NATO Phillips P OBrien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, wrote in an analysis piecenbsp;that the potential return of Donald Trump to the White House could see the US "neuter" the Western military alliance

To achieve its military goals, Shoigu said Russia was supplying its troops with modern weapons and offering improved training, despite reports indicating Russian troops lack advanced training and are low on weapons Balazs Orban, chief political aide to the prime minister, said Hungary sent a proposal to the EU over the weekend showing it was open to using the budget for the aid package if other "caveats" were added Moscow has claimed its forces have taken control of the village of Tabaivka in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region US-based thinktank the Institute for the Study of War said it had seen continued reports that Russia had not been able to produce missiles and artillery ammunition at pre-war levels for its own forces to use - making it unlikely to be able to export arms at pre-war levels Hungary has signalled it is ready to compromise on EU funding for Ukraine - after Brussels reportedly prepared to sabotage its economy if it did not comply Meanwhile, Moscow has claimed its forces have taken control of the village of Tabaivka in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region

But Mr Putin might take the risk if he felt it was the only way of saving his leadership If he was, perhaps, facing defeat in Ukraine, he might be tempted to escalate further We now know the Russian leader is willing to break long-standing international norms https//wwwopenlearningcom/u/michaelsenbishop-s2dhzs/blog/HeightOfCarleyShimkusFromFoxNewsRevealed can be applied to the use of nuclear weapons