The US and its allies are working with Ukraine to combine technology, weapons, tactics and intelligence to counter Russian missile and drone attacks, Pentagon officials told The New York Times, with two NASAMS, Hawk and Avenger interceptors and over 1,600 Stingers sent.
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The G7 oil price cap is squeezing Russia’s export income and could push its 2023 budget deficit above the planned 2% of GDP, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said, in Moscow’s clearest acknowledgement yet that the Western sanctions measure could hurt state finances.
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Russian occupying forces have begun demolishing historically significant buildings in central Mariupol, including the House with a Clock that once housed the studio of muralist and mosaic artist Arnautov, says Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the city’s mayor.
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The threat of a new Russian invasion from Belarus is low, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov told The New York Times, saying a flurry of military activity in the north is meant to persuade Kyiv to divert troops from the combat zone in the south and east.
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Ukraine’s anti-tank missiles such as Javelins, NLAWs and Stugna-Ps drew global attention, but it was massed Ukrainian artillery that did most to halt Russia’s drive on Kyiv, according to a Royal United Services Institute report on preliminary lessons of the war in Ukraine.
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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has called on Muslims around the world to unite against NATO, warning that otherwise the alliance will come to trample their homelands, in a Telegram message published in Chinese that also cast Russia’s war in Ukraine as a fight against evil.
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The Pentagon is expanding its training of Ukrainian forces, planning to instruct about 500 troops a month at the Grafenwoehr training area in Germany in combined arms skills for larger units from January, more than doubling the number trained there, US officials said.
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