“However long it takes, that will be the steadfast and unflinching goal of the United Kingdom.”
“This is not in the infamous phrase some faraway country of which we know little…this hideous and barbaric venture must end in failure.”
Control of important industries gives Putin scope to hit back. If he thinks he can endure the pain longer than we can, they will be a poor deterrent.
Re-calibrating policies to account for the reality of conflict and warfare today could not be more urgent.
“There is still time” for the Russian President “to do the right thing”, he adds.
A Russian invasion of Ukraine is “very, very highly likely” and “very, very imminent”, says Minister for Europe.
Despite calls for his resignation over lockdown parties, PM says it is “wonderful” to be leader of a country where he faces “that sort of pressure”.
The Salisbury attack constituted a kind of education in how brutal and shameless Moscow is prepared to be when flouting national sovereignty.
Concerted action by the West has made many strategies short of war less viable. Will Russia go all the way, or return to economic pressure?
Moreover, its leaders do not understand his motivations. He doesn’t want a win in Ukraine; he wants a continuing crisis.
At a time when the UK is reeling from the impact of cyber attacks by suspected Chinese agents, it is bizarre to chase friendship rather than follow caution.
The Shadow Home Secretary says Russia should be in “no doubt” that it would face a united international response to an invasion.
The Northern Irish Secretary is pressed on why Britain, the US, and EU nations are waiting to act.
Voters’ reluctance to act may gall the hawks, but it is decades in the making – and an accurate judgment of the UK’s actual military power.
We aren’t sitting on an invisible shale gas store that we can turn the taps on for at a moment’s notice.