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UK, France, Germany, US Lift Range Restrictions on Military Supplies to Ukraine
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UK, France, Germany, US Lift Range Restrictions on Military Supplies to Ukraine – Merz
UK, France, Germany, US Lift Range Restrictions on Military Supplies to Ukraine – Merz
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The United Kingdom, France, the United States and now Germany have lifted range restrictions on military supplies to Ukraine, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.
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“There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons supplied to Ukraine — not by the British, not by the French, not by us, not by the Americans. This means that Ukraine can now defend itself, including, for example, by striking military positions on Russian territory. Until a certain point, it could not do this,” Merz said in an interview with the WDR TV channel.Earlier in the day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Ukrainians are striking Russian social and civilian infrastructure facilities, and that Russia’s strikes against military targets in Ukraine are in retaliation.Russian air defense systems have shot down 148 Ukrainian drones over the regions in the past 24 hours, the Russian defense Ministry said on Monday.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The United Kingdom, France, the United States and now Germany have lifted range restrictions on military supplies to Ukraine, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.
“There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons supplied to Ukraine — not by the British, not by the French, not by us, not by the Americans. This means that Ukraine can now defend itself, including, for example, by striking military positions on Russian territory. Until a certain point, it could not do this,” Merz said in an interview with the WDR TV channel.
Earlier in the day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Ukrainians are striking Russian social and civilian infrastructure facilities, and that Russia’s strikes against military targets in Ukraine are in retaliation.
Russian air defense systems have shot down 148 Ukrainian drones over the regions in the past 24 hours, the Russian defense Ministry said on Monday. -
UK Military Felt They ‘Had The Right To Do Whatever They Want In Afghanistan’
11:44 GMT 15.05.2025 (Updated: 11:49 GMT 15.05.2025)
For over a decade, Afghan civilians screamed for justice. Night raids, women and children killed in their sleep, homes destroyed without cause — the British military’s “conqueror” mentality turned Helmand into a war zone of revenge and fear.
Why has this come to light only now? Because the US-backed British military is good at hiding information about new scandals about them, Arshad Yusufzai says. The journalist from Peshawar, who’s been on the ground in Afghanistan since 2009, exposes what everyone ignored:
It was Afghanistan, a third-world country with no international support and no powerful independent media to cover the events. Complaints from the Taliban, the Karzai government, and locals about war crimes were simply dismissed by international agencies.Repentance? Those who committed these war crimes “have a conscience, and now they want justice to be done, or at least they want to take the burden off their shoulders.”No legal action ahead: Americans involved in similar crimes were spared with “only minimal punishments” in the past. And “it’s going to be the same” with the UK military.Feeling of arrogance: The UK special forces believed “everything belongs to them” as they were involved in violating international humanitarian laws and peoples’ lives and dignities.Hidden motives: British troops were defeated by the Afghans in the past, and they were battered time and again in Helmand, so they had “sort of a revenge on their mind.”What about justice for the victims now — why aren’t the Taliban taking these cases to the ICC?
“They’re not expecting anything from the international community because what’s done is done for them right now. But they believe in time healing these issues. And they know that a time will come that the world will know about the crimes that were taking place in Afghanistan in the 21 years of occupation by the international forces.”
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Defeat by Houthis Reveals ‘US Military Decline’
The humiliation the US suffered at the hands of the Houthis was the product of the United States military’s own arrogance, former Pentagon analyst Ret. Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski tells Sputnik.
Kwiatkowski compared the US anti-Houthi campaign to the American War for Independence, where the “arrogant” British military grossly overestimated their opponent, “a smaller, tougher, more creative set of people.”
The US military decline, she posits, has been going on for decades but was so far easy to hide because the US never fought serious enemies.
As such, there are three lessons Russia, Iran and China can derive from the US misadventures:
Do not engage in proxy warsBe aware that people fighting for their land will fight harder and smarter than “a visiting professional army”If you have to fight people who fight for their lives and their way of life, prepare to be ruthless and to emulate their tactics and strategiesDonald Trump’s attempt to sell the US withdrawal from the anti-Houthi campaign as a success does not seem militarily credible, though the material losses the US suffered in the form of lost aircraft and downed Reaper drones are a “good reason to regroup.”
