Moscow has the world's second-largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and a huge cache of ballistic missiles which form the backbone of the country's deterrence forces.
"It means that President Putin is continuing to escalate this war in a manner that is totally unacceptable," Thomas-Greenfield said in an interview on CBS. The American ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said she condemned Putin's step in the strongest terms. "This is a pattern that we've seen from President Putin through the course of this conflict, which is manufacturing threats that don't exist in order to justify further aggression," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on ABC when asked about the announcement from Moscow. President Vladimir Putin's nuclear forces alert represents a "totally unacceptable" escalation of the invasion of Ukraine, the United States said Sunday, accusing the Russian leader of fabricating threats to justify "further aggression." Russian troops have so far failed to enter Kyiv as Ukrainians defended the capital city. The Ukrainian leader had earlier rejected an offer of talks in Belarus, saying the Russian ally had been a launchpad for the invasion of his country. The moves came as President Volodymyr Zelensky announced he had agreed to talks with a Russian delegation on the Ukraine-Belarus border. The United States immediately denounced the latest escalation by the Russian President as "completely unacceptable" while Nato's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called it "dangerous" and "irresponsible". He ordered the Russian defence minister and the chief of the military's General Staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a "special regime of combat duty." Speaking at a meeting with his top officials, Putin cited "aggressive statements" coming from Western powers and hard-hitting economic sanctions - which include the exclusion of Russian banks from the Swift global payments system - as reasons for the action. President Vladimir Putin has put Russia's strategic nuclear deterrent forces on alert, dramatically ratcheting up the tensions in his stand-off with the West over his invasion of Ukraine. The bloc will also close its airspace to Russian airlines, including the private planes of oligarchs. An additional £42m is meant to be spent on non-lethal equipment such as medical supplies, Reuters reported. The commission hopes to use £378m of EU funds, the lion's share of the cash, to finance arms deliveries. "We live in unprecedented times", he said as he urged ministers to back "emergency assistance measures" to use the €5.7bn euro European Peace Facility to help Ukraine. The taboo that the European Union was not providing arms in a war," said Josep Borrell, the EU's chief diplomat who will host a meeting of EU foreign ministers this evening. This is a watershed moment," said Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission. "For the first time ever, the European Union will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment for a country that is under attack. The European Union will take the unprecedented step of supplying weapons to Ukraine in a "watershed moment", it was announced on Sunday, the first time in its history the bloc has made such a move. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, called the step a "watershed moment" and also announced that the bloc will also close its airspace to Russian airlines.įollow the latest updates in our Monday blog. This development comes as the European Union took the unprecedented step of supplying weapons to Ukraine, which is the first time the bloc has financed the purchase and delivery of weapons for a country that is under attack.
Maxar has been tracking the buildup of Russian forces for weeks. The convoy was situated northeast of the Ukrainian city of Ivankiv and contained fuel, logistics and armored vehicles including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery. The deployment consisted of hundreds of military vehicles and extended more than 3.25 miles (5 km), Maxar said.
The images released by Maxar Technologies, a space technology company, showed a large deployment of Russian ground troops moving in the direction of the Ukrainian capital from approximately 40 miles (64 km) away. A three-mile column of Russian troops and tanks have been seen "moving towards Kyiv" in satellite imagery taken on Sunday.
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