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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The US is planning to send Ukraine electronic kits that convert unguided aerial bombs into GPS-guided smart bombs, known as Joint Direct Attack Munitions, allowing Kyiv to strike Russian military positions more precisely, The Washington Post reports, citing officials.
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Ukraine’s push to liberate Crimea could prompt Vladimir Putin to resort to nuclear weapons, Western officials fear, while failure to resolve the peninsula’s status could lock Russia and Ukraine into a decade-long conflict, according to a Washington Post analysis.
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The Kremlin likely has not abandoned its maximalist objectives in Ukraine, despite spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s first acknowledgement that Moscow’s current territorial aim is to fully seize four partially occupied Ukrainian oblasts, the Institute for the Study of War says.
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Vladimir Putin said the threat of nuclear war was growing but insisted Russia had not gone mad and would not use nuclear weapons first, telling his human rights council that Russia’s nuclear arsenal is a deterrent and that the war in Ukraine could be a lengthy process.
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Vladimir Putin is setting conditions for a protracted war of conquest in Ukraine, the Institute for the Study of War says, after he called the invasion a lengthy process, compared himself to Peter the Great and portrayed control of the Sea of Azov as a major achievement.
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