Comments come after Vladimir Putin threatens ‘more destruction’ in response to Kazan drone attack
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the country’s diplomats Ukraine will have to fight to persuade allies to allow it to take up Nato membership, but has described the goal as “achievable” as the country searches for security guarantees to protect it from Russia.to ensure that Russia does not attack again. Nato has said Ukraine will join it one day, it has not suggested when or issued an invitation.
“Whoever, and however much they try to destroy, they will face many times more destruction themselves and will regret what they are trying to do in our country,” Putin said during a televised government meeting on Sunday. The latest threat came as Moscow claimed fresh battlefield advances in the north-eastern Kharkiv region, saying it had “liberated” two villages close to Kurakhove, a key hub that would be a major prize in the Kremlin’s attempt to capture the Donetsk region.
Finland’s prime minister, Petteri Orpo, stressed the need for increased defence spending and support for Ukraine and said Russia represented a “permanent and dangerous threat to the EU and European countries”.
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