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‘I ORDER YOU TO CANCEL IT’: Russian President Vladimir Putin made a very public display today of his order for Russian troops to hold off on any operation aimed at clearing the last defenders of Mariupol from the Azovstal steel plant where they are holed up with more than 1,000 civilians, including women and children.
The test came with a pointed warning from Putin, who delivered it in a televised videoconference where he congratulated the defense ministry for the successful launch. The Sarmat ICBM, said Putin, “has the highest tactical and technical characteristics and is capable of overcoming all modern means of anti-missile defense.”
At the White House, press secretary Jen Psaki said that “the timing and the scope of Russia's missile test” would not “influence our approach to countering Russia's further invasion of Ukraine.” The Pentagon said yesterday that some of the 18 155mm howitzers the U.S. promised to Ukraine had already made it into Ukraine, along with ammunition, and that more would be arriving today.
Austin was effusive in his praise of Poland’s role in assisting Ukraine in its most desperate time of need. A senior defense official said spare parts allowed Ukraine to get 20 more of its existing fleet of Soviet MiGs back into the fight. “The situation in the east and south of our country remains as severe as possible,” said Zelensky, who portrayed Putin as desperate to gain some sort of propaganda victory. And while he continues to ask for more weapons, he also said he thinks the U.S. and its European allies get what has to be done.
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