Volodymyr zelensky has accused the west of emboldenIng VladImIr PutIn wIth Its hesItatIon over long range mIssIles. PresIdent bIden and SIr KeIr Starmer had met to decIde whether to allow kyIv to use Storm Shadow mIssIles agaInst targets InsIde russIa. I dont thInk much about VladImIr PutIn. DespIte thIs put down there Is stIll a cautIous approach and no offIcIal change In polIcy. ThIs wasnt a meetIng about a partIcular capabIlIty, that wasnt why we got our heads down today. It was to allow ourselves the space, whIch we took, and the tIme, whIch we took, to have a strategIc dIscussIon. These long range mIssIles are at the heart of the talks. The uk already supplIes Storm Shadows to ukraIne, but only for use wIthIn ukraIne. The comIng weeks could see that the change wIth them beIng allowed to be fIred Into russIa at mIlItary InstallatIons. Some mIlItary observers say UkraIne IsjustIfIed In wantIng to stop the attacks at source. Now, what may happen here Is some of us may get loosened up
welcome to the programme. russia strikes kyiv again, just as a delegation of african leaders visit the ukrainian capital to discuss peace solutions. also tonight: a two year investigation into the minneapolis police department in the wake of the killing of george floyd has found that officers routinely used excessive force and discriminated against black people for years. we ll have an update from kalamata, in greece, where officials have denied a series of reports that suggest the migrant boat which capsized 50 miles off the south coast did so because a rope was attached to it by coastguards. and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence technology has led to a lot of fear and concern, but also a lot of new and exciting solutions. we ll look at one example from devon, where ai is being used to predict pollution in waterways before it happens. but first let s focus in on ukraine, where the capital, kyiv, has come under missile attack at the same time that a delegation of af
With the West locked into a semi-permanent conflict with Russia, and the fraying deterrence equations between the big powers, the consequent disequilibrium on the Eurasian continent is a matter of deep concern. It works primarily to China’s advantage
The Russian publication The Insider claims to have found in Brussels an agent of Russian military intelligence (GRU), Viktor Labin, who, together with his family, provides the Russian defence industry with coordinate-measuring machines.
The Russian defence industry has produced and delivered new and improved weapons systems to support the war effort in Ukraine, including the 2S35 Koalitsiya howitzer, the Gibka-S air defence system and the modernised T-80BVM tank, according to reports coming out of the country.