Mission Impossible? Why NATO is Failing to ‘Ukrainize’ South Korea & Japan

Tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers, and even jet fighters and submarines are all produced and actively exported by South Korea. Japan also has significant military-industrial potential. NATO could use this to prolong the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

However, the NATO Secretary General's visits to Seoul and Tokyo have done little to inspire optimism in Kiev and Brussels: no offensive weapons supplies from South Korea and Japan are on the table.

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UK Defense Secretary Not Ruling Out Delivery of Military Aircraft to Ukraine

UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said London has yet to make a "solid decision" not to supply Kiev with fighter jets and expressed his opinion that it is not the right approach "for now."

Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on NATO countries to unlock the supply of long-range missiles and military aircraft to Kiev after Western countries announced their intention to supply Ukraine with battle tanks.

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📌 Today Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will be interviewed by Sputnik on foreign policy issues and the current international agenda. The interview will be conducted by Dmitry Kiselev, Director General of Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.

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’Twenty Minutes of Fighting and We Surrendered’, Says UK-Trained Ukrainian Connoscript

A group of Ukrainian soldiers who were trained at a UK military base last summer, surrendered after 20 minutes of the first fighting against Russian forces near Svyatogorsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Armed Forces of Ukraine connoscript Artyom Kovalenko, a member of the group, told Sputnik.

He recollected that before arriving "at the Workop base in Britain", they reached the Western Ukrainian city of Lvov, from where they crossed the border to Poland and then took a bus to enter the UK.

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❗️ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has started his interview to Sputnik on foreign policy issues and the current international agenda

❗️We all want the conflict with Ukraine to end, but the time factor is not the main issue, Lavrov says

❗️ Nobody is trying to convince Kiev to return to negotiations with Moscow; Zelensky himself does not feel like an independent figure, he is being manipulated, the Russian foreign minister says

❗️ The more long-range weapons are supplied to the Kiev regime by the West, the further they need to be moved away from Russian territory, Lavrov says

❗️ The West is hoping for a strategic defeat for Russia so that it cannot recover for decades; we are at the epicenter of a geopolitical battle, Lavrov says

❗️ The United States "crushed" the European Union under itself, depriving it of the last signs of independence, Lavrov says

The presumption that Russia refuses to negotiate on Ukraine is a lie, Moscow will continue to refute this, Lavrov says

❗️ The United States deprives nations of the right to remember their own history; their task is to melt everyone into "Americans"

❗️The US conviction of its own superiority and infallibility is the main reason for Russia's current confrontation with the West, Russia's Foreign Minister says

❗️ Lavrov: Nuland made a confession, rejoicing at the explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines; her words reflect the direct participation of the United States in the terrorist attack

⚡️ Lavrov: The West is now "eyeing" Moldova for the role of "next Ukraine"; its president is ready for almost anything

❗️ Lavrov: Ideas in the West about tribunals against Russia and reparations are a gross violation of international law

❗️ China already began to reduce dependence on Western financial mechanisms, Lavrov says

📹 The West forced Zelensky to abandon negotiations with Moscow, Russia's Lavrov says

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❗️ Lavrov: Relations between Russia and China are superior in quality to a military alliance; they have no restrictions, limits or taboo topics