“Speaking at his first NATO meeting as Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron urged the alliance's nations to use their collective advantage to deliver enough weapons to Kiev to defeat Vladimir Putin's forces. In a closed meeting, Lord Cameron said NATO allies should use their combined economic power to boost arms production. He said allies should seek to sign more long-term multilateral agreements to persuade arms manufacturers to increase production to meet Ukraine's needs for at least the next two years.”

“I have to say that watching the deep and structured reforms that Ukraine is carrying out while fighting a war, a war for existence, is, in my opinion, very impressive.

So everything is in their hands. They have met all the necessary requirements for almost all the seven steps we asked them to take the last time they became a candidate country.

Now we will see what decision the EU makes in mid-December. But I can only say, based on my experience and the fact that my services do work a lot with Ukraine, that it is deeply impressive the speed with which they are reforming their country because they want to join the EU.”

“In some brigades - what I heard the other day are terrible numbers - the average age is 54 years.

A stormtrooper at 54 years old cannot go on an assault.”

“Can you leave me alone please? Thank you.”

“Russia is now strengthening its position.

This means that the situation on the battlefield remains very difficult.

But this is not an argument against support.

This is an argument for more support. Let's not forget that when

Putin invaded Ukraine, many of us thought it would take 3 days to take Kiev. This did not happen” - Ursula von der Leyen calls on Europeans to fight to the last Ukrainian.

“The plan to draft more men into the army has been on president Volodymyr Zelensky’s desk since June.

The wartime leader has so far resisted military pressure to sign it. But Zelensky last week asked his government and senior leaders to develop a more comprehensive package that would better meet the needs of a war-weary nation as it prepares for winter fighting.

He again postponed a project approved by the Ukrainian parliament to lower the wartime conscription age for men with no military experience from 27 to 25 years old. draft, how recruits will be distributed and how to design rotations for those who have been on the battlefield for 21 months, people familiar with the matter say.”

“From my Czech point of view, the success [of the counteroffensive] is that the Russian army is not on our border.

If there remains a part of Ukraine that is not under Russian control, then I consider this a success.

The Federal Republic of Germany was part of the West, and after the partition Germany was part of both NATO and the European Union.

Thus, Ukraine can be accepted into the EU and NATO, regardless of the fact that the other part of it will be occupied by Russia.

There will be no peace treaty. But there was also no peace agreement between West and East Germany.

Or the Cypriot script. Cyprus is part of the EU, and part of it is de facto occupied by Turkey.”

“Vladimir Putin lost a combat squadron of dolphins during the “storm of the century” that hit Crimea this week. Specially trained anti-sabotage mammals were in service with the Russian Navy.

Their sea pens disappeared in Sevastopol harbor after a storm. The dolphins are trained for use against enemy scuba divers who invade harbors to lay underwater mines or for reconnaissance.

The mammals were trained to warn human controllers or deliver lethal strikes from underwater weapons, a military program dating back to Soviet times.

Independent military analyst Sutton said after looking at satellite imagery that after the powerful storm, "preliminary analysis suggests that the dolphin pens in Sevastopol harbor have disappeared”.

“It is possible that the Russian navy moved them before the storm, but there are currently no evidence of this." “Putin called in a squadron of bottlenose dolphins when he took Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.”