The US will concentrate on stopping Iranian weapons supplies to Russia and on supporting protesters in Iran rather than on stalled talks to revive the nuclear deal, US special envoy Robert Malley said, warning that supplying missiles to Moscow would cross new lines.
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Russia is firing ageing nuclear-capable Kh-55 cruise missiles stripped of their warheads at Ukraine, likely as decoys to exhaust Ukrainian air defences, according to British intelligence and Ukrainian reports, in a sign of depleted Russian stocks of long-range missiles.
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To get around Hungary’s veto on official NATO-Ukraine Commission meetings, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg organised a separate meeting of allied foreign ministers with Ukraine’s Dmytro Kuleba in Bucharest, focused on military aid and Ukraine’s energy system.
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Russia and Ukraine are using weapons and ammunition at a rate not seen since World War II, straining Western stockpiles as NATO allies search for ways to keep supplying Kyiv, The New York Times reports, warning that the supply of weapons could prove decisive in the war.
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Russian occupying forces appear to be preparing to deport 10,500 Ukrainian children from occupied Luhansk Oblast to Russia after medical checks of 15,000 children, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center says, urging parents not to let Russian doctors examine their children.
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Russia has concentrated more than 9,000 troops in Belarus near the Ukrainian border, and about 15,000 Belarusian servicemen are ready to join the war on Russia’s side, partly because of high pay, a senior officer of Ukraine’s General Staff said, assessing the threat as low.
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Russia raised a record 820 billion roubles, about $13.6 billion, in a single day of debt sales on November 16, British intelligence says, calling debt issuance a key way to sustain defence spending and a sign Moscow expects an increasingly uncertain fiscal environment.
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