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☆ U.S. says Russia's Ukraine invasion offered preview to potential global tyranny
  + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Phil Stewart | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Nov 19 (Reuters) - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has offered a preview of "a possible world of tyranny and turmoil," U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday in a speech to a security forum in Canada. Moscow hopes to exhaust Ukraine's missile defenses, and buy time to reset its forces, Pentagon officials say. The United States and its allies have helped provide arms, intelligence and training to Ukrainian forces, while stopping short of directly intervening in a war against nuclear-armed Russia. And they could well conclude that getting nuclear weapons would give them a hunting license of their own," Austin said. Austin said the United States was drawing on the lessons of Ukraine to "bolster the self-defense capabilities of our Indo-Pacific partners."
☆ Pentagon says Moscow's deliberate targeting of Ukrainian energy grids is a war crime
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Amanda Macias | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon on Wednesday slammed Russia's barrage of missile strikes across Ukrainian cities and said that Moscow's deliberate targeting of energy infrastructure is a war crime. "It was likely the largest wave of missiles that we've seen since the beginning of the war," Milley said, adding that "the deliberate targeting of the civilian power grid, causing excessive collateral damage and unnecessary suffering on the civilian population is a war crime." Austin called Russia's missile and rocket attacks on civilian infrastructure "deliberate cruelty" and called on Moscow to end its "war of choice." They're going to continue that fight until the winter as best we can tell," Milley added. Stoltenberg added that initial assessments found that the incident was caused by an air defense missile launched to "defend Ukrainian territory against Russian cruise missile attacks."
☆ Top U.S. general plays down probability of near-term Ukraine military victory
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Idrees Ali Phil Stewart | Idrees Ali | Phil Stewart | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/3] U.S. Joint Chiefs Chair Army General Mark Milley speaks during a news briefing after participating a virtual Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Tom BrennerWASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The top U.S. general on Wednesday said Ukraine's chances of any near-term, outright military victory were not high, cautioning that Russia still had significant combat power inside Ukraine despite suffering battlefield setbacks since its invasion in February. Ukraine has vowed to keep the pressure on Russian forces until it reclaims control of all occupied territory. "The probability of a Ukrainian military victory - defined as kicking the Russians out of all of Ukraine to include what they claim as Crimea - the probability of that happening anytime soon is not high, militarily," Milley told a news conference at the Pentagon. Ukraine is not going to back down," Milley said, adding that Ukraine was free, "and they want to remain free."
☆ NATO meets to discuss ways to bolster Ukraine's air defense after Russia's revenge missile strikes
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Christian Nunley | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNATO meets to discuss ways to bolster Ukraine's air defense after Russia's revenge missile strikesNATO defense chiefs have met with Ukraine's Defense Contact Group to bolster Ukraine's air defenses. That's the 50-country coalition supporting Ukraine's military in its war against Russia. Ukraine is asking for more air defenses after Russia rained down missiles onto its capital Kyiv and other cities.
☆ Top US general calls Russia out for war crimes, saying Putin's forces are purposefully gunning for civilian targets
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Gen. Mark Milley said Russia's "deliberate" attacks on Ukraine's civilians are a "war crime." "Indiscriminate and deliberate attacks on civilian targets is a war crime in the international rules of war," said Milley. Milley said that Russia "deliberately struck civilian infrastructure with the purpose of harming civilians." "They have targeted the elderly, the women and the children of Ukraine," Milley said, adding that "indiscriminate and deliberate attacks on civilian targets is a war crime in the international rules of war." "They once again demonstrate the utter brutality of Mr. Putin's illegal war on the Ukrainian people."
☆ A Crucial Moment for Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-04-25 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Western governments are applauding themselves for helping Ukraine resist Russia’s invasion, and some credit is certainly due. But as the war’s first anniversary looms, so does a new moment of decision: Will the U.S. and Europe let the war grind on as a brutal stalemate, or will they provide enough military aid so Ukraine can take back its territory and win the war? That’s the strategic choice, unspoken publicly but looming in the background, as Ukraine’s allies meet Friday at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. The Ukraine Defense Contact Group includes 50 governments, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley will attend. Their decisions will set the terms of war from the Ukrainian side for the rest of the winter and beyond.
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