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La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, December 2, 2024, p. 26
Washington. The United States is not considering returning to Ukraine the nuclear weapons it renounced after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said yesterday.
What we are doing is providing to kyiv in different ways conventional capabilities so that it can defend itself effectively and stand up to the Russians, not give them nuclear capabilitieshe commented to the ABC network.
Sullivan made these statements when questioned about an article published last month in the New York Times, in which it was stated that some unnamed Western officials suggested to US President Joe Biden that he could deliver weapons to Ukraine before he leaves office next January.
On the battlefield, Russian air defenses shot down 29 Ukrainian drones early Sunday morning.
The Russian Defense, which did not specify the targets of the possible attacks, which it described as terroristsdetailed that there were 20 in the Bryansk region; seven – in Kaluga; one, in Smolensk, and another in Kursk.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved budget plans and raised military spending by 2025 to record levels.
Legislators from both chambers of the Russian Parliament (the State Duma and the Federation Council) approved the allocation of more than $145 billion to national defense, representing 32.5 percent of the country’s entire budget.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal reported that 15 of Ukraine’s 20 civilian airports were affected since the start of the Russian attacks.
After a risk assessment we have determined the needs of the defense forces to partially open the airspaceShmyhal declared at a conference on transport, according to information from the Ukrinform news agency.
Currently, Ukrainians who want to fly abroad have to travel by road or rail to neighboring countries to board their flights, but for those living in the east, the trip out of Ukraine can take a day.
The new President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, and the High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union (EU), Kaja Kallas, traveled to kyiv in a show of support on their first day of their respective mandates.
A demonstration against the sending of Western soldiers to Ukraine and the supply of weapons to kyiv was held yesterday in the center of Paris, in front of the Louvre Museum, reported the correspondent of the Sputnik news agency.
The attendees shouted: Macron, we will not want your war!; No missiles, no mines to Ukraine!; We will not allow a single soldier to be sent to Ukraine!
The march was called by Los Patriotas, a right-wing party.
