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Russia continues to launch thousands of drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities every week, resulting in strikes like this one in the central city of Dnipro on Thursday.Image: Dnipro region military administration in Telegram<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The United States<\/a> is making security guarantees for Ukraine<\/a> conditional upon Kyiv’s surrender of its entire eastern Donbas region to Russia, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ukrainian leader’s comments came as a delegation of Russian lawmakers heads to Washington for meetings with US counterparts.<\/p>\n

“We hope that these first, cautious steps will contribute to the continued revival of our bilateral relations,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> had determined the “most important targets” for the visit and would remain “extensively informed.”<\/p>\n

The Duma delegation’s trip comes as negotiations aimed at ending Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, which is now into its fifth year, appear to have stalled despite three rounds of talks<\/a> between US, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in Abu Dhabi<\/a> and Geneva<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy: US tying security guarantees to Donbas withdrawal<\/h2>\n

The key sticking point remains Moscow’s insistence that Kyiv cede\u00a0the entirety of its industrial eastern regions of Luhansk<\/a> and Donetsk<\/a> which are largely \u2014\u00a0but far from entirely \u2014\u00a0occupied by Russian forces.<\/p>\n

Kyiv, on the other hand, is determined to obtain concrete security guarantees from its Western allies, both financial and military, to deter any future resumption of Russian aggression.<\/p>\n

“The Americans are prepared to finalize these guarantees at a high level once Ukraine is ready to withdraw from Donbas,” Zelenskyy told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday, while European Union<\/a>\u00a0foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc shared concerns about Ukraine being pressured into ceding territory.<\/p>\n

“This is clearly a wrong \u200bapproach,” she said\u00a0on the sidelines of a \u2060G7 foreign ministers’ \u200bmeeting in France<\/a> on Thursday.\u00a0“It is, of \u200bcourse, \u200cthe Russian playbook of negotiations: demanding something that has \u200cnever been theirs. This is a trap that we should \u200bnot walk into.”<\/p>\n

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Zelenskyy told Reuters that the US had tied security guarantees to a Ukrainian withdrawl from the DonbasImage: Danylo Antoniuk\/Avalon\/Photoshot\/picture alliance<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What is the Donbas and why is it important?<\/h2>\n

Around 6,000 square kilometers (3,700 square miles) of the Donbas, largely in Donetsk, remains firmly under Ukrainian control, including a key belt of heavily fortified towns, including Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Kostyantynivka\u00a0and Pokrovsk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Putin insists that control of the entire Donbas, plus the partially occupied Ukrainian regions Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, a territory he refers to as “Novorossiya” or\u00a0“New Russia,” is an essential Russian war aim and a prerequisite for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

If Ukraine refuses to cede the territories, Putin has threatened to take them by force \u2014\u00a0an undertaking that would “likely take several years to complete” at the Russians’ current rate of advance, according to the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW).<\/p>\n

“I would very much like the American side to understand \u200bthat the eastern part of our country is part of our security guarantees,” Zelenskyy told Reuters, adding that the war being waged by the United States and Israel against Iran<\/a> is changing US President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s approach.<\/p>\n

How is the Iran war affecting Ukraine?<\/h2>\n

“The \u2060Middle East definitely has an impact on President Trump and his next steps,” Zelenskyy said. “President Trump, unfortunately, in my opinion, is still choosing a strategy of putting more pressure on the Ukrainian side.”<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy’s suggestion that Washington has tied security guarantees to the ceding of Donbas has been well received in Moscow, from where Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev told Reuters that the development “can’t help but make us happy.”<\/p>\n

The conflict in the Middle East is affecting Ukraine in other ways, too, with Zelenskyy claiming that Russia has sought to blackmail the United States by offering to stop sharing military intelligence with Iran<\/a> if, in return, Washington cuts Ukraine off from its intelligence data.<\/p>\n

“I have reports from our intelligence services showing that Russia is this and saying: ‘We will not pass on intelligence to \u200bif America stops passing intelligence to Ukraine,'” Zelenskyy said. “Isn’t that blackmail? Absolutely.”<\/p>\n

Russia has denied assisting Iran, but Zelenskyy claimed that some Iranian drones used to attack US and allied military assets in the Middle East contained Russian components.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Ukraine has also been able to profit from the Iran war by offering its own hard-won expertise in drone warfare<\/a> to Gulf states coming under attack from Iranian “Shahed” drones, which Russia has deployed extensively in Ukraine over the past four years.<\/p>\n

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Britain: Learning from Ukrainian soldiers<\/h2>\n

Are US weapons earmarked for Ukraine being diverted to the Gulf?<\/h2>\n

Also on Thursday, the Washington Post<\/em> reported that the Pentagon is considering diverting munitions originally earmarked for Ukraine to the Gulf as the war against Iran strains US military supplies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Pentagon spokesperson told the US newspaper\u00a0\u200bthat the Defense Department would “ensure that US forces and those of our allies and partners have what they need to \u2060fight \u200band win.”<\/p>\n

Among the weapons that could reportedly be redirected are key air defense interceptor \u200bmissiles \u2014\u00a0including Patriot missiles, the only weapons capable of downing Russian ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

The US\u00a0produces 60 to 65 missiles per month, or about 700 to 800 missiles per year, according to Zelenskyy. “And on the first day in the Middle East war, 803 missiles were used.”<\/p>\n

However, NATO<\/a>\u00a0Secretary General Mark Rutte said the supply of US equipment to Ukraine continues and Zelenskyy also thanked the Trump administration for maintaining \u200bsupplies thus far.<\/p>\n

“Deliveries to us were not stopped,” he said in his interview with Reuters. “But this supply of Patriot missiles is not as large as we need.”<\/p>\n

Russia and Ukraine exchange drone strikes<\/h2>\n

Indeed, Russian attacks continued in the early hours of Thursday, hitting four energy facilities in \u2060Ukraine’s \u2060southern Odesa region and \u200bknocking out power to \u200bthousands of residents.<\/p>\n

“The damage extensive, will \u200btake time,” energy \u200bcompany DTEK said on the \u200bTelegram messaging app, saying power had been restored to \u200b31,500 families in the region \u200bbut that \u206033,400 were still \u2060without power.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ukrainian \u2060drones \u2060reportedly struck \u200bthe \u200bKirishi oil \u200brefinery in Russia’s northwestern Leningrad region. Regional governor \u200bAlexander Drozdenko confirmed the attack, saying that over 20 drones were shot down but admitted, “There is damage in the industrial area.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Kirishinefteorgsintez oil refinery, one of the largest in the country, halted \u200cprocessing on Thursday, two industry sources told Reuters<\/em>, estimating that\u00a0around 40% of \u200bRussia’s crude oil exporting capacity has already been shut as a result of drone attacks, seizures of shadow fleet tankers<\/a> and the closure of the\u00a0Druzhba pipeline<\/a> on the territory of \u200bUkraine.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the Donbas, Russian troops are reportedly gearing up for a new spring offensive against the Donetsk fortress belt, with fierce fighting\u00a0taking place along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (750-mile) front line, according to\u00a0Ukrainian commander-in-chief General\u00a0Oleksandr Syrskyi.<\/p>\n

“Over the past weeks, the Russians have intensified pressure on the battlefield and in the air,” Elina Beketova of the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis told the Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert Murrett, a retired vice admiral in the US\u00a0Navy and deputy director of Syracuse University’s Institute for Security Policy and Law, added that Russia is experimenting with “new approaches” on the “tactical level,” including incorporating mechanized infantry and armor in its offensive.<\/p>\n

Edited by: Sean Sinico<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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The United States<\/a> is making security guarantees for Ukraine<\/a> conditional upon Kyiv’s surrender of its entire eastern Donbas region to Russia, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ukrainian leader’s comments came as a delegation of Russian lawmakers heads to Washington for meetings with US counterparts.<\/p>\n

“We hope that these first, cautious steps will contribute to the continued revival of our bilateral relations,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> had determined the “most important targets” for the visit and would remain “extensively informed.”<\/p>\n

The Duma delegation’s trip comes as negotiations aimed at ending Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, which is now into its fifth year, appear to have stalled despite three rounds of talks<\/a> between US, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in Abu Dhabi<\/a> and Geneva<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy: US tying security guarantees to Donbas withdrawal<\/h2>\n

The key sticking point remains Moscow’s insistence that Kyiv cede\u00a0the entirety of its industrial eastern regions of Luhansk<\/a> and Donetsk<\/a> which are largely \u2014\u00a0but far from entirely \u2014\u00a0occupied by Russian forces.<\/p>\n

Kyiv, on the other hand, is determined to obtain concrete security guarantees from its Western allies, both financial and military, to deter any future resumption of Russian aggression.<\/p>\n

“The Americans are prepared to finalize these guarantees at a high level once Ukraine is ready to withdraw from Donbas,” Zelenskyy told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday, while European Union<\/a>\u00a0foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc shared concerns about Ukraine being pressured into ceding territory.<\/p>\n

“This is clearly a wrong \u200bapproach,” she said\u00a0on the sidelines of a \u2060G7 foreign ministers’ \u200bmeeting in France<\/a> on Thursday.\u00a0“It is, of \u200bcourse, \u200cthe Russian playbook of negotiations: demanding something that has \u200cnever been theirs. This is a trap that we should \u200bnot walk into.”<\/p>\n

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Zelenskyy told Reuters that the US had tied security guarantees to a Ukrainian withdrawl from the DonbasImage: Danylo Antoniuk\/Avalon\/Photoshot\/picture alliance<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What is the Donbas and why is it important?<\/h2>\n

Around 6,000 square kilometers (3,700 square miles) of the Donbas, largely in Donetsk, remains firmly under Ukrainian control, including a key belt of heavily fortified towns, including Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Kostyantynivka\u00a0and Pokrovsk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Putin insists that control of the entire Donbas, plus the partially occupied Ukrainian regions Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, a territory he refers to as “Novorossiya” or\u00a0“New Russia,” is an essential Russian war aim and a prerequisite for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

If Ukraine refuses to cede the territories, Putin has threatened to take them by force \u2014\u00a0an undertaking that would “likely take several years to complete” at the Russians’ current rate of advance, according to the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW).<\/p>\n

“I would very much like the American side to understand \u200bthat the eastern part of our country is part of our security guarantees,” Zelenskyy told Reuters, adding that the war being waged by the United States and Israel against Iran<\/a> is changing US President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s approach.<\/p>\n

How is the Iran war affecting Ukraine?<\/h2>\n

“The \u2060Middle East definitely has an impact on President Trump and his next steps,” Zelenskyy said. “President Trump, unfortunately, in my opinion, is still choosing a strategy of putting more pressure on the Ukrainian side.”<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy’s suggestion that Washington has tied security guarantees to the ceding of Donbas has been well received in Moscow, from where Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev told Reuters that the development “can’t help but make us happy.”<\/p>\n

The conflict in the Middle East is affecting Ukraine in other ways, too, with Zelenskyy claiming that Russia has sought to blackmail the United States by offering to stop sharing military intelligence with Iran<\/a> if, in return, Washington cuts Ukraine off from its intelligence data.<\/p>\n

“I have reports from our intelligence services showing that Russia is this and saying: ‘We will not pass on intelligence to \u200bif America stops passing intelligence to Ukraine,'” Zelenskyy said. “Isn’t that blackmail? Absolutely.”<\/p>\n

Russia has denied assisting Iran, but Zelenskyy claimed that some Iranian drones used to attack US and allied military assets in the Middle East contained Russian components.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Ukraine has also been able to profit from the Iran war by offering its own hard-won expertise in drone warfare<\/a> to Gulf states coming under attack from Iranian “Shahed” drones, which Russia has deployed extensively in Ukraine over the past four years.<\/p>\n

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Britain: Learning from Ukrainian soldiers<\/h2>\n

Are US weapons earmarked for Ukraine being diverted to the Gulf?<\/h2>\n

Also on Thursday, the Washington Post<\/em> reported that the Pentagon is considering diverting munitions originally earmarked for Ukraine to the Gulf as the war against Iran strains US military supplies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Pentagon spokesperson told the US newspaper\u00a0\u200bthat the Defense Department would “ensure that US forces and those of our allies and partners have what they need to \u2060fight \u200band win.”<\/p>\n

Among the weapons that could reportedly be redirected are key air defense interceptor \u200bmissiles \u2014\u00a0including Patriot missiles, the only weapons capable of downing Russian ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

The US\u00a0produces 60 to 65 missiles per month, or about 700 to 800 missiles per year, according to Zelenskyy. “And on the first day in the Middle East war, 803 missiles were used.”<\/p>\n

However, NATO<\/a>\u00a0Secretary General Mark Rutte said the supply of US equipment to Ukraine continues and Zelenskyy also thanked the Trump administration for maintaining \u200bsupplies thus far.<\/p>\n

“Deliveries to us were not stopped,” he said in his interview with Reuters. “But this supply of Patriot missiles is not as large as we need.”<\/p>\n

Russia and Ukraine exchange drone strikes<\/h2>\n

Indeed, Russian attacks continued in the early hours of Thursday, hitting four energy facilities in \u2060Ukraine’s \u2060southern Odesa region and \u200bknocking out power to \u200bthousands of residents.<\/p>\n

“The damage extensive, will \u200btake time,” energy \u200bcompany DTEK said on the \u200bTelegram messaging app, saying power had been restored to \u200b31,500 families in the region \u200bbut that \u206033,400 were still \u2060without power.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ukrainian \u2060drones \u2060reportedly struck \u200bthe \u200bKirishi oil \u200brefinery in Russia’s northwestern Leningrad region. Regional governor \u200bAlexander Drozdenko confirmed the attack, saying that over 20 drones were shot down but admitted, “There is damage in the industrial area.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Kirishinefteorgsintez oil refinery, one of the largest in the country, halted \u200cprocessing on Thursday, two industry sources told Reuters<\/em>, estimating that\u00a0around 40% of \u200bRussia’s crude oil exporting capacity has already been shut as a result of drone attacks, seizures of shadow fleet tankers<\/a> and the closure of the\u00a0Druzhba pipeline<\/a> on the territory of \u200bUkraine.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the Donbas, Russian troops are reportedly gearing up for a new spring offensive against the Donetsk fortress belt, with fierce fighting\u00a0taking place along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (750-mile) front line, according to\u00a0Ukrainian commander-in-chief General\u00a0Oleksandr Syrskyi.<\/p>\n

“Over the past weeks, the Russians have intensified pressure on the battlefield and in the air,” Elina Beketova of the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis told the Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert Murrett, a retired vice admiral in the US\u00a0Navy and deputy director of Syracuse University’s Institute for Security Policy and Law, added that Russia is experimenting with “new approaches” on the “tactical level,” including incorporating mechanized infantry and armor in its offensive.<\/p>\n

Edited by: Sean Sinico<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The United States<\/a> is making security guarantees for Ukraine<\/a> conditional upon Kyiv’s surrender of its entire eastern Donbas region to Russia, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ukrainian leader’s comments came as a delegation of Russian lawmakers heads to Washington for meetings with US counterparts.<\/p>\n

“We hope that these first, cautious steps will contribute to the continued revival of our bilateral relations,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> had determined the “most important targets” for the visit and would remain “extensively informed.”<\/p>\n

The Duma delegation’s trip comes as negotiations aimed at ending Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, which is now into its fifth year, appear to have stalled despite three rounds of talks<\/a> between US, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in Abu Dhabi<\/a> and Geneva<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

The key sticking point remains Moscow’s insistence that Kyiv cede\u00a0the entirety of its industrial eastern regions of Luhansk<\/a> and Donetsk<\/a> which are largely \u2014\u00a0but far from entirely \u2014\u00a0occupied by Russian forces.<\/p>\n

Kyiv, on the other hand, is determined to obtain concrete security guarantees from its Western allies, both financial and military, to deter any future resumption of Russian aggression.<\/p>\n

“The Americans are prepared to finalize these guarantees at a high level once Ukraine is ready to withdraw from Donbas,” Zelenskyy told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday, while European Union<\/a>\u00a0foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc shared concerns about Ukraine being pressured into ceding territory.<\/p>\n

“This is clearly a wrong \u200bapproach,” she said\u00a0on the sidelines of a \u2060G7 foreign ministers’ \u200bmeeting in France<\/a> on Thursday.\u00a0“It is, of \u200bcourse, \u200cthe Russian playbook of negotiations: demanding something that has \u200cnever been theirs. This is a trap that we should \u200bnot walk into.”<\/p>\n

Around 6,000 square kilometers (3,700 square miles) of the Donbas, largely in Donetsk, remains firmly under Ukrainian control, including a key belt of heavily fortified towns, including Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Kostyantynivka\u00a0and Pokrovsk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Putin insists that control of the entire Donbas, plus the partially occupied Ukrainian regions Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, a territory he refers to as “Novorossiya” or\u00a0“New Russia,” is an essential Russian war aim and a prerequisite for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n

If Ukraine refuses to cede the territories, Putin has threatened to take them by force \u2014\u00a0an undertaking that would “likely take several years to complete” at the Russians’ current rate of advance, according to the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW).<\/p>\n

“I would very much like the American side to understand \u200bthat the eastern part of our country is part of our security guarantees,” Zelenskyy told Reuters, adding that the war being waged by the United States and Israel against Iran<\/a> is changing US President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s approach.<\/p>\n

“The \u2060Middle East definitely has an impact on President Trump and his next steps,” Zelenskyy said. “President Trump, unfortunately, in my opinion, is still choosing a strategy of putting more pressure on the Ukrainian side.”<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy’s suggestion that Washington has tied security guarantees to the ceding of Donbas has been well received in Moscow, from where Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev told Reuters that the development “can’t help but make us happy.”<\/p>\n

The conflict in the Middle East is affecting Ukraine in other ways, too, with Zelenskyy claiming that Russia has sought to blackmail the United States by offering to stop sharing military intelligence with Iran<\/a> if, in return, Washington cuts Ukraine off from its intelligence data.<\/p>\n

“I have reports from our intelligence services showing that Russia is this and saying: ‘We will not pass on intelligence to \u200bif America stops passing intelligence to Ukraine,'” Zelenskyy said. “Isn’t that blackmail? Absolutely.”<\/p>\n

Russia has denied assisting Iran, but Zelenskyy claimed that some Iranian drones used to attack US and allied military assets in the Middle East contained Russian components.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Ukraine has also been able to profit from the Iran war by offering its own hard-won expertise in drone warfare<\/a> to Gulf states coming under attack from Iranian “Shahed” drones, which Russia has deployed extensively in Ukraine over the past four years.<\/p>\n

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Also on Thursday, the Washington Post<\/em> reported that the Pentagon is considering diverting munitions originally earmarked for Ukraine to the Gulf as the war against Iran strains US military supplies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Pentagon spokesperson told the US newspaper\u00a0\u200bthat the Defense Department would “ensure that US forces and those of our allies and partners have what they need to \u2060fight \u200band win.”<\/p>\n

Among the weapons that could reportedly be redirected are key air defense interceptor \u200bmissiles \u2014\u00a0including Patriot missiles, the only weapons capable of downing Russian ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

The US\u00a0produces 60 to 65 missiles per month, or about 700 to 800 missiles per year, according to Zelenskyy. “And on the first day in the Middle East war, 803 missiles were used.”<\/p>\n

However, NATO<\/a>\u00a0Secretary General Mark Rutte said the supply of US equipment to Ukraine continues and Zelenskyy also thanked the Trump administration for maintaining \u200bsupplies thus far.<\/p>\n

“Deliveries to us were not stopped,” he said in his interview with Reuters. “But this supply of Patriot missiles is not as large as we need.”<\/p>\n

Indeed, Russian attacks continued in the early hours of Thursday, hitting four energy facilities in \u2060Ukraine’s \u2060southern Odesa region and \u200bknocking out power to \u200bthousands of residents.<\/p>\n

“The damage extensive, will \u200btake time,” energy \u200bcompany DTEK said on the \u200bTelegram messaging app, saying power had been restored to \u200b31,500 families in the region \u200bbut that \u206033,400 were still \u2060without power.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ukrainian \u2060drones \u2060reportedly struck \u200bthe \u200bKirishi oil \u200brefinery in Russia’s northwestern Leningrad region. Regional governor \u200bAlexander Drozdenko confirmed the attack, saying that over 20 drones were shot down but admitted, “There is damage in the industrial area.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Kirishinefteorgsintez oil refinery, one of the largest in the country, halted \u200cprocessing on Thursday, two industry sources told Reuters<\/em>, estimating that\u00a0around 40% of \u200bRussia’s crude oil exporting capacity has already been shut as a result of drone attacks, seizures of shadow fleet tankers<\/a> and the closure of the\u00a0Druzhba pipeline<\/a> on the territory of \u200bUkraine.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the Donbas, Russian troops are reportedly gearing up for a new spring offensive against the Donetsk fortress belt, with fierce fighting\u00a0taking place along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (750-mile) front line, according to\u00a0Ukrainian commander-in-chief General\u00a0Oleksandr Syrskyi.<\/p>\n

“Over the past weeks, the Russians have intensified pressure on the battlefield and in the air,” Elina Beketova of the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis told the Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert Murrett, a retired vice admiral in the US\u00a0Navy and deputy director of Syracuse University’s Institute for Security Policy and Law, added that Russia is experimenting with “new approaches” on the “tactical level,” including incorporating mechanized infantry and armor in its offensive.<\/p>\n

Edited by: Sean Sinico<\/em><\/p>\n

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