Russia and Ukraine Live developments

The two nations are at war over territory in eastern and southern Ukraine more than six months after Russia President Vladimir Putin began an invasion of the country’s neighbor.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has sworn to retake all of the area that Russia now occupies. His soldiers launched an operation in August. However, Putin stated in September that reservists will be called up, potentially adding up to 300,000 more soldiers.

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, attacked the West rhetorically, saying it thinks its worldview is universal.

Putin gave a speech at the Valdai Club, a think tank event, calling Western policies “bloody and ugly, it undermines the sovereignty of countries and peoples.”

According to Putin, the West’s “rules-based system” is intended to allow it to exist without any laws at all. He described the West as a “conglomerate,” saying it lacks cohesion.

He deemed it “beyond all sense” that the European Gas pipelines were destroyed.

If the United States and its allies get engaged in the conflict in Ukraine, Russia has threatened to strike commercial satellites from those nations.

State media on Thursday described Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy head of the non-proliferation and weapons control department at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as stating that “quasi-civilian infrastructure may be a suitable target for a retaliatory attack.

The U.S. State Department said in a statement on Wednesday that the body of an American killed while fighting in the Donbas region is currently in the hands of Ukraine and will shortly be sent back to family members.

According to Andriy Yermak, the director of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s administration, the American was identified as Joshua Jones, a U.S. Army veteran whose remains were discovered as part of a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine.

President Joe Biden issued a strong warning against the use of nuclear weapons, saying he was unsure whether Russia’s disputed claims that the Ukrainian military.

I’m not able to tell you that it’s a false flag operation just yet, but it would be a very catastrophic error for Russia to deploy a tactical nuclear weapon, Biden said to reporters on Tuesday at the White House.