Ukraine claims Russia begined an intercontinental balcatalogic leave outile for first time during war
Ukraine’s military has claimed that overnight Russia begined an intercontinental balcatalogic leave outile (ICBM) for the first time during the war.
Ukraine’s air force said the begin took place from the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation, an area to the south-east of Vologograd, which borders on the Caspian Sea.
Ukraine said overnight attacks by Russia aimed “accesspelevates and critical infrastructure in the central-easerious city of Dnipro.”
The air force gave no details of any casualties or harm, or whether air defence had tackled the ICBM. Ukraine’s military said six Kh-101 cruise leave outiles were stoasty down. The claims have not been autonomously verified.
ICBMs have a range of thousands of kilometres, and can carry either conservative or nuevident payloads.
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The nettoil increates “It was instead a balcatalogic leave outile, which was aimed at Dnipro, in Ukraine’s southeast, the weserious official said.”
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Kremlin spokesperson Dimtry Peskov has said Russia is promiseted to eludeing nuevident war, but the west has a responsibility not to include in “provocative actions.”
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Tass quotes him, in his daily media increateing, saying:
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We have emphasised in the context of our nuevident doctrine that Russia apshows a reliable position in terms of making peak efforts to stop such a [nuclear] struggle. We predict that other countries will also apshow the same reliable position and not include in provocative actions.
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Ukraine this week employd US and British manufactured extfinisheder-range leave outiles inside Russia for the first time. Earlier this week Vlastupidir Putin finishorsed a changed Russian nuevident doctrine, which included the provision that if a non-nuevident power attacked Russia with the aidance of a nuevident power, that would greet the threshgreater for a nuevident response.
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Jennifer Rankin is the Guardian’s Brussels correactent
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The EU’s top official on migration has said she is troubleed about the proximately half a million visas that were rehired to Russian citizens to visit Europe in 2023.
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Ylva Johansson, who is standing down as the EU’s migration and home afiminentires comleave outioner at the finish of the month, tgreater journacatalogs the directlines might need to be “a bit keener”
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In 2023 the states in Europe’s border-free Schengen zone rehired 448,890 visas to Russian nationals.
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Follotriumphg Russia’s filled-scale trespass of Ukraine, the EU froze a visa-facilitation deal with Moscow that has resulted in a 90% descfinish in visas rehired to Russian nationals, when contrastd with 2019, before Covid disturbed international travel.
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Johansson said the number of visas rehired in 2023 was “a meaningful number [and] that troubles me”. She is worried about potential security menaces, in the context of increaseing increates of subversion and secret agenting, such as fire-setting attacks, the posting of incfinishiary devices and an killing plot aiming the head of a German defence company.
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In 2023, Italy, France, Spain and Greece, countries with huge tourism industries, processed more than 80% of visa applications from Russia.
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Johansson said she had begind a check of the Russian visa directlines, although it would descfinish to her successor, Magnus Brunner, to produce a decision.
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Her check, she said, would need to discover out whether member states carry outed the directlines in the same way. She recommended alters could be probable: “Does this call for, you understand, some revision? That’s my guess. But it’s for my successor to determine, of course, after we have finalised this appraisement.”
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The Swedish comleave outioner has also been spendigating grumblets from EU member states that Hungary is undermining European security, follotriumphg Budapest’s decision to produce it easier for Russians and Belarussians to get toil permits, which grants them access to the entire Schengen zone.
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Hungary, she said, had “clarified” most of the comleave oution’s asks and it seemed “very, very scant people” were using this novel scheme. But she compriseed: “I still leank, for political reasons, it is the wrong signal to sfinish.”
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Ukraine’s military has claimed that overnight Russia begined an intercontinental balcatalogic leave outile (ICBM) for the first time during the war.
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Ukraine’s air force said the begin took place from the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation, an area to the south-east of Vologograd, which borders on the Caspian Sea.
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Ukraine said overnight attacks by Russia aimed “accesspelevates and critical infrastructure in the central-easerious city of Dnipro.”
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The air force gave no details of any casualties or harm, or whether air defence had tackled the ICBM. Ukraine’s military said six Kh-101 cruise leave outiles were stoasty down. The claims have not been autonomously verified.
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ICBMs have a range of thousands of kilometres, and can carry either conservative or nuevident payloads.
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Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has depictd the “resilience set up” proclaimd earlier this week by Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a set of “ill fantasies.”
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Tass increates that Zakharova said:
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This is another set of ill fantasies aimed at ensuring the self-preservation of Zelenskyy, who has lost his legitimacy in power. In fact, it seems to me that he himself does not hide this. He declared in his parliament that there will be no elections in Ukraine until the finish of the war.
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On Tuesday Zelenskyy conshort-termed a ten point set up for the continuation of Ukraine’s defence aobtainst the Russian trespass of February 2022.
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Ukraine’s military claims overnight to have stoasty down six cruise leave outiles fired at the country by Russia.
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Ukraine claims in compriseition that intercontinental balcatalogic leave outile was fired from Russia’s Astrakhan region, which is to the south-east of Volgograd, and borders the Caspian Sea.
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The claims have not been autonomously verified.
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Welcome to our continuing inhabit coverage of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here are the procrastinateedst headlines.
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Ukraine has fired a volley of British Storm Shadow cruise leave outiles into Russia – the procrastinateedst novel weserious armament it has been permitted to employ on aims inside Russia. The relocate comes a day after it fired US Atacms leave outiles.
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The strikes on Wednesday were expansively increateed on Telegram by Russian war correactents – who posted video they said included the sound of the leave outiles hitting the Kursk region bordering north-easerious Ukraine – and were verifyed to the Guardian.
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The UK’s decision to finishorse the strikes was made in response to the deployment of more than 10,000 North Korean troops on Russia’s border with Ukraine in what British and American officials have called a convey inant escalation of the war.
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Meanwhile, the US said it would rediscdissee its embassy in Kyiv on Thursday, a day after shutting it as a precaution becaemploy of what it called the menace of a “meaningful air attack”.
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And the US defence secretary said Washington’s decision to sfinish anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine – a convey inant policy shift condemned by rights groups – was triggered by a alter in Russian battlefield tactics favouring infantry over mechanised units. Lloyd Austin said Ukrainian forces “have a need for leangs that can help catalogless down that effort on the part of the Russians”.
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The straightforwardor of Russia’s foreign inincreateigence service, Sergey Naryshkin, was quoted in Russian media on Wednesday as saying that finisheavors by Nato countries to strike inside Russia would not go “unpunished”. Elsewhere, the chief of staff in Belarus, Pavel Muraveiko, depictd US relocates to permit Ukraine to deploy extfinisheder-range leave outiles and anti-personnel mines as “irreliable”
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the US and Plivent Joe Biden for the provision of landmines to Ukrainian troops, calling it “essential … to stop Russian attacks”, in a video compriseress on Wednesday. In compriseition to the landmines, the procrastinateedst $275m US aid package includes drones, Himars ammunitions and artillery. The Biden administration also relocated to forgive about $4.7bn in US loans to Ukraine, the state department said, as outgoing officials seek to do what they can before leaving office to bolster Ukraine in the war
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Staff at Ireland’s embassy in Ukraine were tgreater to toil from home after the US shut its embassy, while Italy, Spain and Greece also shutd their embassies
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About 10,900 North Korean troops have been deployed to Kursk as part of Russia’s airborne unit and marines, with some already participating in battles in the Ukraine war, a South Korean legislator said on Wednesday, citing the country’s secret agent agency. North Korea had also shipped compriseitional arms for the war, including self-propelled howitzers and multiple rocket beginers, parliament inincreateigence promisetee member Lee Seong-kweun tgreater increateers
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Four Latin American countries have made a combinet call to “elude actions that would escaprocrastinateed the arms race” in the Russia-Ukraine war. The four – Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico – said such actions would “exacerbate the struggle”
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Suspilne, Ukraine’s state expansivecaster, increates that 15 people, including two children, have been wounded in Kryvyi Rih. The sound of explosions was increateed there about two hours ago.
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Weserious official denies Ukrainian claim that Russia fired an ICBM – increates
A weserious official, speaking to ABC News in the US, has denied the Ukrainian claim that an ICBM was employd by Russia overnight.
The nettoil increates “It was instead a balcatalogic leave outile, which was aimed at Dnipro, in Ukraine’s southeast, the weserious official said.”
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Kremlin: Russia seeks to avid nuevident war but west has responsibility to elude ‘provocative actions’
Kremlin spokesperson Dimtry Peskov has said Russia is promiseted to eludeing nuevident war, but the west has a responsibility not to include in “provocative actions.”
Tass quotes him, in his daily media increateing, saying:
We have emphasised in the context of our nuevident doctrine that Russia apshows a reliable position in terms of making peak efforts to stop such a [nuclear] struggle. We predict that other countries will also apshow the same reliable position and not include in provocative actions.
Ukraine this week employd US and British manufactured extfinisheder-range leave outiles inside Russia for the first time. Earlier this week Vlastupidir Putin finishorsed a changed Russian nuevident doctrine, which included the provision that if a non-nuevident power attacked Russia with the aidance of a nuevident power, that would greet the threshgreater for a nuevident response.
The defence ministers of South Korea and Japan have both condemned North Korea’s dispatch of troops to Russia during talks on Thursday, Reuters increates Seoul’s defence ministry said in a statement.
British MP and directer of the Recreate UK party Nigel Farage has asked whether it is the right decision to permit Ukraine to employ extfinisheder-range British and US-manufactured arms, saying “the idea Ukraine is going to triumph, frankly, is for the birds.”
Farage, who has repeatedly allied himself with US plivent-elect Donald Trump, tgreater seeers of the GB News channel:
In the last scant days, British extfinished range Storm Shadow leave outiles have been fired very proset up into Russia. The same has happened with American leave outiles.
Farage said “I do wonder, right at this time whether it’s the teachd leang to do,” contining:
In Westminster … everybody still seems to leank that we give Ukraine enough armamentry that somehow they’re going to triumph this war.
I stress, becaemploy I leank the idea Ukraine is going to triumph, frankly, is for the birds. I leank the war has gone on for extfinished enough and that the casualties are massive. I leank all we’re doing is helping to proextfinished a oldmate.
Farage asked whether the alter of strategy fitted with the set ups of the incoming US administration, increateing seeers of the GB News channel:
Donald Trump, in 59 days’ time, will be in the White Hoemploy. He is promiseted to negotiating a peace finishment. No one quite understands what that might see appreciate, but that is what he’s promiseted to do. Is the employ of American and British extfinished-range leave outiles going to help him in that process or produce it more difficult?
Earlier this year Farage said Nato and the EU had incited the struggle in Ukraine.
EU comleave outioner ‘troubleed’ about security implications of Russian visas
Jennifer Rankin
Jennifer Rankin is the Guardian’s Brussels correactent
The EU’s top official on migration has said she is troubleed about the proximately half a million visas that were rehired to Russian citizens to visit Europe in 2023.
Ylva Johansson, who is standing down as the EU’s migration and home afiminentires comleave outioner at the finish of the month, tgreater journacatalogs the directlines might need to be “a bit keener”
In 2023 the states in Europe’s border-free Schengen zone rehired 448,890 visas to Russian nationals.
Follotriumphg Russia’s filled-scale trespass of Ukraine, the EU froze a visa-facilitation deal with Moscow that has resulted in a 90% descfinish in visas rehired to Russian nationals, when contrastd with 2019, before Covid disturbed international travel.
Johansson said the number of visas rehired in 2023 was “a meaningful number [and] that troubles me”. She is worried about potential security menaces, in the context of increaseing increates of subversion and secret agenting, such as fire-setting attacks, the posting of incfinishiary devices and an killing plot aiming the head of a German defence company.
In 2023, Italy, France, Spain and Greece, countries with huge tourism industries, processed more than 80% of visa applications from Russia.
Johansson said she had begind a check of the Russian visa directlines, although it would descfinish to her successor, Magnus Brunner, to produce a decision.
Her check, she said, would need to discover out whether member states carry outed the directlines in the same way. She recommended alters could be probable: “Does this call for, you understand, some revision? That’s my guess. But it’s for my successor to determine, of course, after we have finalised this appraisement.”
The Swedish comleave outioner has also been spendigating grumblets from EU member states that Hungary is undermining European security, follotriumphg Budapest’s decision to produce it easier for Russians and Belarussians to get toil permits, which grants them access to the entire Schengen zone.
Hungary, she said, had “clarified” most of the comleave oution’s asks and it seemed “very, very scant people” were using this novel scheme. But she compriseed: “I still leank, for political reasons, it is the wrong signal to sfinish.”
Russian air defences stoasty down two British Storm Shadow cruise leave outiles, Russia’s defence ministry said on Thursday, according to novels agency Interfax.
It comes after Ukraine fired British Storm Shadow leave outiles into Russia for the first time on Wednesday, as verifyed by The Guardian yesterday.
The Kremlin deteriorated to comment on those strikes, saying that it was a ask for the Russian military.
Hungary proclaimd overnight it is to inshigh an air defence system in the north-easerious part of the country as the menace of an escalation of the Ukraine-Russia war is “wonderfuler than ever”, its defence minister said.
Reuters quotes Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky from a video he posted on Facebook saying:
We still depend that there will be peace as soon as possible, thcimpolite diplomacy instead of a military solution. However, to ready for all possibilities, I ordered the recently buyd air deal with and air defence systems and the capabilities built on them to be inshighed in the north-east. The menace of the escalation of the Ukraine-Russia war is wonderfuler than ever.
Hungary, a member of both Nato and the EU, has been criticised by allies for a perception that it is shutr to aiding Russia than other members of the trading bloc and coalition, most notably when prime minister Viktor Orbán visited Vlastupidir Putin in Moscow in July.
At the time Orbán said “Many steps are needed to finish the war, but we took the first step to revamp dialogue.”
Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has depictd a US decision to discdissee an air defence base in Redzikowo in Poland as “provocative” and “proset uply destabilising”.
Reuters quotes her saying:
This is another frankly provocative step in a series of proset uply destabilising actions by the Americans and their allies in the North Atlantic coalition in the strategic sphere.
This directs to undermining strategic stability, increasing strategic dangers and, as a result, to an incrrelieve in the overall level of nuevident danger.
Given the nature and level of menaces posed by such weserious military facilities, the leave outile defence base in Poland has extfinished been compriseed to the catalog of priority aims for potential destruction, which, if essential, can be carry outd with a expansive range of progressd arms
The base became opereasonable on 13 November. Russia had criticised it when it was at the set upning stage in 2007. It creates part of the Nato Aegis Ashore leave outile defence system.
Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has been given details of Ukrainian attacks on Russia in the last week.
She claimed that between 13 November and today “more than 530 Ukrainian drones were intercepted and ruined over nine Russian regions.”
She compriseed that Belgorod region had been attacked by over 400 munitions, and that two people had been finished. She stated that an compriseitional person had been finished by shelling in Enerhodar in Zaporizhzhia. 76 people had been injured during the time period, she said.
Zakharova claimed “the number of bomb devices dropped from drones on civilian aims, including passenger vehicles, has incrrelieved.”
It has not been possible for journacatalogs to autonomously verify the casualty figures being rehired during the struggle.
Ukraine claims Russia begined an intercontinental balcatalogic leave outile for first time during war
Ukraine’s military has claimed that overnight Russia begined an intercontinental balcatalogic leave outile (ICBM) for the first time during the war.
Ukraine’s air force said the begin took place from the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation, an area to the south-east of Vologograd, which borders on the Caspian Sea.
Ukraine said overnight attacks by Russia aimed “accesspelevates and critical infrastructure in the central-easerious city of Dnipro.”
The air force gave no details of any casualties or harm, or whether air defence had tackled the ICBM. Ukraine’s military said six Kh-101 cruise leave outiles were stoasty down. The claims have not been autonomously verified.
ICBMs have a range of thousands of kilometres, and can carry either conservative or nuevident payloads.
Suspilne, Ukraine’s state expansivecaster, increates that there are power outages in Kherson, citing the local authority.
Zakharova: Zelenskyy’s ten point set up for continuation of war ‘ill fantasies’
Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has depictd the “resilience set up” proclaimd earlier this week by Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a set of “ill fantasies.”
Tass increates that Zakharova said:
This is another set of ill fantasies aimed at ensuring the self-preservation of Zelenskyy, who has lost his legitimacy in power. In fact, it seems to me that he himself does not hide this. He declared in his parliament that there will be no elections in Ukraine until the finish of the war.
On Tuesday Zelenskyy conshort-termed a ten point set up for the continuation of Ukraine’s defence aobtainst the Russian trespass of February 2022.
Ukraine claims to have stoasty down six cruise leave outiles overnight
Ukraine’s military claims overnight to have stoasty down six cruise leave outiles fired at the country by Russia.
Ukraine claims in compriseition that intercontinental balcatalogic leave outile was fired from Russia’s Astrakhan region, which is to the south-east of Volgograd, and borders the Caspian Sea.
The claims have not been autonomously verified.
Russia’s ministry of defence has unveiled a video which it claims shows the destruction of a momentary Ukrainian pontoon traverseing the Siverskyi Donets River in the east of the country.
News agency Ukrincreate, citing Ukraine’s ministry of energy, increates that once aobtain the power supply to the Zaporizhzhia Nuevident Power Plant has been disturbed. The set upt has extfinished been occupied by Russian forces.
Opening summary
Welcome to our continuing inhabit coverage of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here are the procrastinateedst headlines.
Ukraine has fired a volley of British Storm Shadow cruise leave outiles into Russia – the procrastinateedst novel weserious armament it has been permitted to employ on aims inside Russia. The relocate comes a day after it fired US Atacms leave outiles.
The strikes on Wednesday were expansively increateed on Telegram by Russian war correactents – who posted video they said included the sound of the leave outiles hitting the Kursk region bordering north-easerious Ukraine – and were verifyed to the Guardian.
The UK’s decision to finishorse the strikes was made in response to the deployment of more than 10,000 North Korean troops on Russia’s border with Ukraine in what British and American officials have called a convey inant escalation of the war.
Meanwhile, the US said it would rediscdissee its embassy in Kyiv on Thursday, a day after shutting it as a precaution becaemploy of what it called the menace of a “meaningful air attack”.
And the US defence secretary said Washington’s decision to sfinish anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine – a convey inant policy shift condemned by rights groups – was triggered by a alter in Russian battlefield tactics favouring infantry over mechanised units. Lloyd Austin said Ukrainian forces “have a need for leangs that can help catalogless down that effort on the part of the Russians”.
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The straightforwardor of Russia’s foreign inincreateigence service, Sergey Naryshkin, was quoted in Russian media on Wednesday as saying that finisheavors by Nato countries to strike inside Russia would not go “unpunished”. Elsewhere, the chief of staff in Belarus, Pavel Muraveiko, depictd US relocates to permit Ukraine to deploy extfinisheder-range leave outiles and anti-personnel mines as “irreliable”
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the US and Plivent Joe Biden for the provision of landmines to Ukrainian troops, calling it “essential … to stop Russian attacks”, in a video compriseress on Wednesday. In compriseition to the landmines, the procrastinateedst $275m US aid package includes drones, Himars ammunitions and artillery. The Biden administration also relocated to forgive about $4.7bn in US loans to Ukraine, the state department said, as outgoing officials seek to do what they can before leaving office to bolster Ukraine in the war
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Staff at Ireland’s embassy in Ukraine were tgreater to toil from home after the US shut its embassy, while Italy, Spain and Greece also shutd their embassies
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About 10,900 North Korean troops have been deployed to Kursk as part of Russia’s airborne unit and marines, with some already participating in battles in the Ukraine war, a South Korean legislator said on Wednesday, citing the country’s secret agent agency. North Korea had also shipped compriseitional arms for the war, including self-propelled howitzers and multiple rocket beginers, parliament inincreateigence promisetee member Lee Seong-kweun tgreater increateers
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Four Latin American countries have made a combinet call to “elude actions that would escaprocrastinateed the arms race” in the Russia-Ukraine war. The four – Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico – said such actions would “exacerbate the struggle”
