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I think some of the weapons that United States might be willing to provide include The Stinger and the Patriot missiles. – Lin Ying-yu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go. – Chris Pocock	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They are using hypersonic missiles. They are using new types of weapons and they are seeing how our air defense systems can cope with it. – Alexander Rodnyansky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Over the last six months or so there’s been a trend towards larger gaps between missile raids, but more missiles used at once when they do, to make it harder for defenses to intercept them all. – Justin Bronk	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The attack is really large-scale and for the first time using such different types of missiles. We see that this time as many as six Kinzhal were used. This is an attack like I don’t remember seeing before, so far, we have no capabilities to counter these weapons. – Yurii Ihnat	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done. – President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s been a difficult night, the enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done. – President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Why do you support Ukraine, pumping it with weapons instead of sitting down to negotiate as I suggest? You are already discussing sending long range weapons, missiles up to 300 kilometers in range and F 16 fighter jets, state of the art fighter jets, after hundreds of Leopard tanks have gone there. Why are you doing this? You understand this is escalation. – Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images Lukashenko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need artillery guns, ammunitions, modern tanks, the long-range missiles and modern fighter jets, we have to enhance the dynamic of our cooperation. – Olivier Matthys/AP Zelensky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The main tool in 1932-33 was extermination by starvation, taking away all foodstuffs and making conditions incompatible with life. It is the same now. Creating conditions incompatible with life, but now there is a wider range of tools, and they are more military related. New weapons, new missiles. A huge mass of troops aimed at destroying and suppressing Ukrainian resistance. – Mykhailo Kostiv	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our partners are aware of the types of weapons we need – first and foremost, fighter jets and long-range missiles that can hit targets up to 300 km away, these are not weapons of escalation, but rather weapons of defense and deterrence against the aggressor. We are actively negotiating to unlock all these solutions. I have instructed all our diplomats in key capitals to make this a priority. – Dmytro Kuleba	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The main targets were energy facilities to deprive Ukrainians of power and warmth, the majority of missiles and drones were intercepted by our defenders. Unfortunately there were hits at substations. Nevertheless the situation in the power grid remains under control. Power engineers are doing everything to provide power supply. – Denys Shmyhal	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have to unlock the supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine, it is important for us to expand our cooperation in artillery, we have to achieve the supply of aircraft to Ukraine. – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The 135 is an unarmed aircraft. Why does the PLAN consider it necessary to intercept carrying missiles when the intent was to visually identify the aircraft? Doing this is potentially dangerous and could lead to a major and tragic incident. – Peter Layton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The academic year will be very difficult, it will begin in unpredictable and very difficult conditions, when there is actually no safe place in Ukraine, since( Russian) missiles can hit anywhere. – Serhii Horbachov	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I know that the gorilla in the room is launching missiles over Taiwan, if we just allow that to happen, and we don't contest that, that'll become the next norm. And that's that's not acceptable. – Karl Thomas	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The exercises are unprecedented as the PLA conventional missiles are expected to fly over the island of Taiwan for the first time, the PLA forces will enter areas within 12 nautical miles of the island and the so-called median line will cease to exist. – Global Times	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Today's Russian missile attack on Odesa, on our port, is a cynical one, and it was also a blow to the political positions of Russia itself, if anyone in the world could still say that some kind of dialogue with it, with Russia, some kind of agreements are needed, see what is happening. Today's Russian Kalibr missiles have destroyed the very possibility for such statements. – Volodymyr Zelenskyy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Russian army continued to fire missiles at our cities. – Volodymyr Zelensky	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In the next few months, we will transfer to Belarus the Iskander-M tactical missile systems, which, as you know, can use both ballistic and cruise missiles, both in conventional and nuclear versions. – Vladimir Putin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Russians hit Kyiv again. Missiles damaged an apartment building and a kindergarten. – Andriy Yermak	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Russian bombers hit directly from the territory of Belarus. Six Tu-22M3 aircraft were involved, which launched 12 Kh-22 cruise missiles. – The Directorate	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Even though Russia has fewer and fewer modern missiles with each passing day, Ukraine's need for such systems remains, russia still has enough Soviet types of missiles – which are even more dangerous. – Volodymyr Zelenskyy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's gon na be hundreds if not thousands of( Chinese) vessels there to soak up those( Taiwanese) missiles. – Thomas Shugart	Found on CNN 2 years ago

I think some of the weapons that United States might be willing to provide include The Stinger and the Patriot missiles.

– Lin Ying-yu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go.

– Chris Pocock

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are using hypersonic missiles. They are using new types of weapons and they are seeing how our air defense systems can cope with it.

– Alexander Rodnyansky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Over the last six months or so there’s been a trend towards larger gaps between missile raids, but more missiles used at once when they do, to make it harder for defenses to intercept them all.

– Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The attack is really large-scale and for the first time using such different types of missiles. We see that this time as many as six Kinzhal were used. This is an attack like I don’t remember seeing before, so far, we have no capabilities to counter these weapons.

– Yurii Ihnat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done.

– President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s been a difficult night, the enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done.

– President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Why do you support Ukraine, pumping it with weapons instead of sitting down to negotiate as I suggest? You are already discussing sending long range weapons, missiles up to 300 kilometers in range and F 16 fighter jets, state of the art fighter jets, after hundreds of Leopard tanks have gone there. Why are you doing this? You understand this is escalation.

– Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images Lukashenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need artillery guns, ammunitions, modern tanks, the long-range missiles and modern fighter jets, we have to enhance the dynamic of our cooperation.

– Olivier Matthys/AP Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The main tool in 1932-33 was extermination by starvation, taking away all foodstuffs and making conditions incompatible with life. It is the same now. Creating conditions incompatible with life, but now there is a wider range of tools, and they are more military related. New weapons, new missiles. A huge mass of troops aimed at destroying and suppressing Ukrainian resistance.

– Mykhailo Kostiv

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our partners are aware of the types of weapons we need – first and foremost, fighter jets and long-range missiles that can hit targets up to 300 km away, these are not weapons of escalation, but rather weapons of defense and deterrence against the aggressor. We are actively negotiating to unlock all these solutions. I have instructed all our diplomats in key capitals to make this a priority.

– Dmytro Kuleba

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The main targets were energy facilities to deprive Ukrainians of power and warmth, the majority of missiles and drones were intercepted by our defenders. Unfortunately there were hits at substations. Nevertheless the situation in the power grid remains under control. Power engineers are doing everything to provide power supply.

– Denys Shmyhal

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have to unlock the supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine, it is important for us to expand our cooperation in artillery, we have to achieve the supply of aircraft to Ukraine.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The 135 is an unarmed aircraft. Why does the PLAN consider it necessary to intercept carrying missiles when the intent was to visually identify the aircraft? Doing this is potentially dangerous and could lead to a major and tragic incident.

– Peter Layton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The academic year will be very difficult, it will begin in unpredictable and very difficult conditions, when there is actually no safe place in Ukraine, since( Russian) missiles can hit anywhere.

– Serhii Horbachov

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I know that the gorilla in the room is launching missiles over Taiwan, if we just allow that to happen, and we don't contest that, that'll become the next norm. And that's that's not acceptable.

– Karl Thomas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The exercises are unprecedented as the PLA conventional missiles are expected to fly over the island of Taiwan for the first time, the PLA forces will enter areas within 12 nautical miles of the island and the so-called median line will cease to exist.

– Global Times

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Today's Russian missile attack on Odesa, on our port, is a cynical one, and it was also a blow to the political positions of Russia itself, if anyone in the world could still say that some kind of dialogue with it, with Russia, some kind of agreements are needed, see what is happening. Today's Russian Kalibr missiles have destroyed the very possibility for such statements.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Russian army continued to fire missiles at our cities.

– Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In the next few months, we will transfer to Belarus the Iskander-M tactical missile systems, which, as you know, can use both ballistic and cruise missiles, both in conventional and nuclear versions.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Russians hit Kyiv again. Missiles damaged an apartment building and a kindergarten.

– Andriy Yermak

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Russian bombers hit directly from the territory of Belarus. Six Tu-22M3 aircraft were involved, which launched 12 Kh-22 cruise missiles.

– The Directorate

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Even though Russia has fewer and fewer modern missiles with each passing day, Ukraine's need for such systems remains, russia still has enough Soviet types of missiles – which are even more dangerous.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's gon na be hundreds if not thousands of( Chinese) vessels there to soak up those( Taiwanese) missiles.

– Thomas Shugart

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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