Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian forces are blockading his country’s largest cities to wear the population down into submission, but he warns Moscow will lose in the long run if it doesn’t end its war.
The rally took place as Russia has faced heavier-than-expected losses on the battlefield and increasingly authoritarian rule at home. There were suspicions the event was a Kremlin-manufactured display of national pride. Russian police have detained thousands of antiwar protesters.
Russia says the Kinzhal, carried by MiG-31 fighter jets, has a range of up to 2,000 kilometers and flies at 10 times the speed of sound. In a separate development, Norway said four U.S. service members died in a plane crash during NATO drills in that country's north. The annual exercise, “Cold Response,” is unrelated to the war in Ukraine.
High above the conflict, three Russian cosmonauts arrived Friday at the International Space Station wearing bright yellow flight suits with blue accents matching the colors of the Ukrainian flag. But cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev said every crew chooses its own suits, and they had a lot of yellow material they needed to use, “so that’s why we had to wear yellow.”
“Because of the fact that they’ve stalled on a number of fronts there, it makes sense that would want to increase his capabilities going forward," Austin said. “We’ve just not seen that yet.”
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