President Trump says that Russian President Putin has “gone absolutely CRAZY” and that Ukrainian President Zelensky is “doing his country no favors by talking the way he does” because “everything out of his mouth causes problems.”
This was a reaction to Russian drone attacks, which Russia says were on “Ukrainian military facilities in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure.”
Russia admits striking “Ukrainian defense plants that manufacture missile and drone components, as well as electronic intelligence and satellite communication centers.” They say that this was “following days of unprecedented massive drone attacks from Kiev.”
Now German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that Germany no longer has a problem with Ukraine using long-range weapons to hit Russia.
“We will do everything in our power to continue supporting Ukraine militarily,” the chancellor said. “There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons supplied to Ukraine, neither from the British nor the French, nor from us, nor from the Americans.”
On what authority does he speak for the Americans? The U.S. has recently reiterated that it will no longer send Ukraine free weapons but is willing to sell them.
Russia says that this talk of long-range weapons are “entirely at odds with our aspirations for a political resolution and with the efforts currently being made toward a settlement” and that these are “quite dangerous decisions, again – if they were indeed made.”
