West prepares for Putin to use ‘whatever tools he’s got left’ in Ukraine | First Thing
Officials braced for nuclear threats and cyber-attacks as part of Russian response to predicted counteroffensive. Plus, what's behind the disgusting food of TikTok?
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Western leaders are preparing for Vladimir Putin to use whatever tools he has got left" including nuclear threats and cyber-attacks in response to an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia.
What needs to happen to end the war? A transatlantic group of former senior diplomats and high-level military advisers said yesterday that the war in Ukraine was on course to become a stalemate unless the west went all in" and increased its level of military support. The group said declarations of unwavering support" were not enough and actions still fail to match the rhetoric" in a reflection of military assessments in European capitals and Washington.
Why wasn't he charged sooner? Kansas City police said they could not take further action until they spoke to the seriously injured boy.
What have Yarl's lawyer's said? The prominent civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump is also representing the family, and earlier told CNN: It is inescapable not to observe the racial dynamics here ... We can only imagine if the roles were reversed, and you have a Black man shooting a 16-year-old white child who was simply ringing his doorbell, and the police took him in for questioning and let him come home and sleep in his bed at night."
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