(Retired officer on significance of Russian missile used in apartments attack)
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US Army Major Mike Lyons (Ret.) and CNN national security analyst Steve Hall discuss the Russian missile system used on the apartments in Dnipro, Ukraine, and reports from the Kremlin saying Russia plans to increase its armed forces.
(Amb. Christoph Heusgen: A ‘consortium’ of countries should provide Ukraine tanks ‘together’)
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Chairman of the Munich Security Conference Ambassador Christoph Heusgen joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss growing calls for allies to send tanks to Ukraine. Asked whether the U.S. should reconsider its objection to these and other weapons systems, Ambassador Heusgen tells Mitchell, “I think that we should do this together, a consortium of European countries that provide these tanks to President Zelenskyy to Ukraine, who is asking for it, and we have to do it together.”
(McFaul: We need a big bang approach against Russia with weapons, sanctions, more)
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The Kremlin is facing a fiscal crisis as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine drags on. Former Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul tells Joy Reid, “We need a big bang approach here on sanctions, on weapons, and on designating them a state sponsor of terrorism.”
(Helicopter crash near Kyiv kills 14, including Ukrainian interior minister)
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A helicopter carrying the leadership team of Ukraine’s interior ministry crashed near a kindergarten and residential block in the Kyiv region on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people, including all nine people on board, according to officials.
A further 25 people were injured following the incident in the city of Brovary Wednesday, including 11 children, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday.
Fourteen bodies were found at the crash site, including one child and all nine people who were on board the helicopter – six ministry officials and three crew members, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES).
Ukrainian National Police confirmed that Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky, First Deputy Minister Yevheniy Yenin and State Secretary Yuriy Lubkovychis were among the dead.
(European defence ministers meet to discuss aid for Ukraine – BBC News)
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European defence ministers are meeting in Estonia, one of a few NATO member states that borders Russia, to discuss further military aid to Ukraine.
Estonia's military aid to Ukraine will rise to more than 1% of GDP.
The country, which shares a 183-mile border with Russia and has a population of 1.3 million people, hosts the largest number of Ukrainian refugees in the EU. The country has accepted over 62,000 Ukrainian refugees.
Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas talks about her expectations of today's defence ministers meeting and how the country is helping war refugees.
(US Coast Guard says this ship off Hawaii coast is a Russian spy ship)
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The US Coast Guard says it is tracking a suspected Russian spy ship in international waters off the coast of Hawaii as tensions between Washington and Moscow remain heightened over Russia's war in Ukraine. CNN's Oren Liebermann reports.
(Ex-Ukrainian president calls proposed military aid package a 'game-changer')
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The US is set to finalize a huge military aid package for Ukraine totaling approximately $2.5 billion worth of weaponry, including for the first time Stryker combat vehicles, two sources briefed on the next tranche of aid told CNN. CNN's Alex Marquardt has more. Then, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko joins CNN to discuss.
(FACT CHECK: Putin Aide Falsely Claims Russia is Fighting NATO, Not Ukraine)
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More than 10 months after invading Ukraine, Russian officials continue to provide false rationalizations for their war. The latest is from Nikolay Patrushev, a top adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Patrushev is secretary of the country’s Security Council. He regularly spreads disinformation about the war.
In an interview with Russia’s state-owned Argumenty i Fakty newspaper, Patrushev denied that Russia is fighting Ukraine. Rather, he said, Moscow’s conflict is with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO, the 30-member European defensive military alliance that includes the United States:
“The events in Ukraine aren’t a clash between Moscow and Kyiv. It’s a military confrontation between NATO, above all the U.S. and Britain, and Russia. Fearing direct contact, NATO instructors are driving Ukrainian guys to certain death."
That is false.
Russia invaded in February despite the lack of a credible threat from Ukraine or NATO. That invited help from the West, and Ukrainian defenders since have showed courageous resistance, winning back territory Russia illegally tried to annex.
(Ukraine pleads for German tanks ahead of defence talks - BBC News)
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President Volodymr Zelensky has appealed to Germany to supply Ukraine with tanks, as leaders meet to discuss further aid.
Defence leaders from a number of Nato members are meeting at the US air base in Ramstein, Germany to discuss sending further aid ahead of an anticipated Spring offensive by Russia.
Germany is under increasing pressure from other countries to supply its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, as the UK prepares to send a dozen Challenger 2 tanks.
"If you have Leopard [tanks], then give them to us, these leopards won't go through Russia. We're defending ourselves.", he told public TV in Germany.
(Hear what Putin critic thinks could lead to Putin's downfall)
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Bill Browder, a former top investor in Russia, weighs in on the possibility of the Russian regime failing and says what he thinks a desperate Vladimir Putin will do to avoid losing power.
(Hear the warning CIA chief gave to Zelensky in secret meeting)
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CIA Director Bill Burns briefed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv last week on the US’ expectations for Russia’s battlefield planning in the spring, according to a US official and two Ukrainian sources familiar with the meeting.
(Top US general says ejecting Russia from Ukraine will be difficult this year)
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley reiterated Friday that Russia's war in Ukraine will likely "end in a negotiation" and not on the battlefield.
(Wagner Group chief openly criticizes Russian military leaders)
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner Group, is heard on audio continuing his criticism of Russia's military by touting Wagner's "exclusive" capture of a suburb outside Bakhmut, Ukraine.
('Putin has no red lines': Ex-ambassador explains Putin's mindset)
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When dealing with Putin about the Ukraine conflict, says former UK Ambassador to Belarus Nigel Gould Davies, "our goal should be not to deter ourselves by fear of what he might do, but to persuade him that escalating the war is radically against his own interests."
(Top Ukrainian Defense official says battle tanks are key to defeating Russia)
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Defense leaders representing several Western countries met in Germany on Friday to discuss what additional weapons systems should be sent to Ukraine to help the country militarily defeat Russia. Yuriy Sak, the advisor to Ukraine’s Minister of Defense says, “Our allies, sooner or later, eventually provide us with what we request but it’s about being one step ahead, not being one step behind the enemy.”
The one weapon Ukraine is desperately seeking, however– the German-made Leopard 2 battle tank– remained off the table in this week’s talks, as Germany continued to deliberate whether to greenlight the transfer of its sophisticated Leopard tanks.
(SU-57: Why Russia is not using its most advanced aircraft over Ukraine)
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The Russian SU-57 stealth fighter will not have any significant impact on the outcome of the war in Ukraine, a defence analyst has said.
Peter Wilson, a senior defence policy analyst at the think tank RAND Corporation, says the use of the SU-57 has been "episodic and almost experimental" because the few aircraft that Russia has of this model are still being developed.
(Germany won’t block Poland sending tanks to Ukraine says country’s foreign minister – BBC News)
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Germany's foreign minister Anna Baerbock has said she "would not stand in the way" of Poland if they were to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
Ukraine has called on the West to provide the German-made tanks which they say will help them defeat Russia.
But Germany is yet to provide the armoured vehicles, and its export laws prevent other countries from sending theirs.
On Sunday, Ms Baerbock said Poland had not yet asked for export permission. Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Monday the government would request authorisation from Berlin.
But he said Poland would send the tanks to Ukraine, even if it was not granted.
(Ukraine ‘will pay’ if Germany sends it tanks, Russia warns)
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The Kremlin has said that Ukraine will bear the consequences if third countries supply it with tanks, amid growing pressure on Germany to dispatch advanced weaponry to Kyiv. CNN’s Fred Pleitgen reports.
(Ex-Trump official reveals the moment he knew his job was at risk)
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Former Secretary of Defense under Trump, Mark Esper, reacts to claims in former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's new book while speaking with CNN's Jake Tapper.
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