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US troops will not fight in Ukraine – Washington

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Both the United States and the EU have ruled out deploying troops from individual NATO members against Russia.

US President Joe Biden has no intention of sending US troops to Ukraine, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said. However, while NATO forces may not be openly fighting the Russians, an unknown number of US military personnel are said to be active in the war-torn region of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, the EU has rejected the idea of any such military mission. The Director General of the European Union Military Staff, Vice Admiral Hervé Blazian, has said that neither Europe nor NATO can send their troops to Ukraine, saying that sending troops to Ukraine means being a party to the war, going to war with Russia.

However, the Pentagon acknowledged in November that a “small number” of US forces were guarding and monitoring the US embassy in Kiev. In April, leaked Pentagon documents also revealed that as of mid-March, 14 US special forces personnel had been deployed to Ukraine and 50 military special forces had been deployed from Britain.

Meanwhile, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, a missile attack on a temporary Ukrainian armed forces base in the city of Donbass killed “20 foreign mercenaries and military advisers,” and photos and videos circulated on social media after the attack allegedly showed English-speaking military personnel in US uniforms dead and wounded at the base.

Moscow considers the US and NATO complicit in the conflict, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of not wanting to end the war against Russia “until the last Ukrainian remains alive”.

Europe is bleeding over the sanctions on Russia: Hungarian PM

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Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has repeatedly called for “the failed policy of Brussels” to be changed, noting that the sanctions “didn’t fulfill the hopes that were pinned on them,” while Europe is “slowly bleeding.”

The European Union has exhausted its options for further economic restrictions against Russia. But even after the ten rounds of sanctions in response to the Ukraine conflict and currently working on an eleventh package of punitive measures against Moscow, EU officials have admitted that those parts of the Russian economy that were left unsanctioned are parts that one or more EU member states “can’t live without,” and thus measures targeting them would be vetoed.

One of the EU officials told that“We are done, “If we do more sanctions, there will be more exemptions than measures.” Officials have admitted that the embargo harms the EU and West more than Moscow.

Newly planned restrictions could reportedly target Russia’s nuclear fuel and services exports, but those would be opposed by some member-states, such as France, Hungary, and others.

Putin promises response to strategic threats

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned outside forces against interfering in the Ukrainian conflict, promising a “lightning-speed” response to such actions, with the use of Moscow’s most advanced weaponry.

Speaking to lawmakers in Moscow on Wednesday Putin said,“If someone decides to intervene in the ongoing events from the outside and create unacceptable strategic threats to us, they should know that our response to those oncoming blows will be swift, lightning-fast”.

“We have all the tools to do this. Tools that no one except us can brag about. But we’re not going to brag. We’ll use them if such a need arises.Russian authorities have already made all the necessary decisions to prepare for such a response, he added.

Last week, Moscow successfully tested its state-of-the-art RS-28 Sarmat inter-continental ballistic missile. The new nuclear-capable weapon can carry several Avangard hypersonic gliders, which are said to be able to bypass any existing air defenses due to their extreme speed and ability to make constant maneuvers during their flight.

Unlike Russia, the US and its NATO allies currently have no hypersonic weapons in service. For now, at least.

Western countries have been actively supplying Kiev with weapons, including anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile systems, armored vehicles and howitzers, since the start of the conflict with Russia. They have also imposed harsh sanctions aimed at reducing Russia’s ability to fund its military campaign.

Source: RT