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The ex-NATO leader said Sunday that he could see the war coming to an end in six months as Putin "burns through troops."

This week the Chinese ambassador to France said that Taiwanese citizens would need to be 're-educated' if the island was 're-unified' with China. This was not a slip of the tongue. Meanwhile, China's first white paper on Taiwan in 22 years dropped the promise not to deploy soldiers in Taiwan in case of 're-unification.'

The first deputy chief of the Russian presidential staff said the West was conducting a "hot military operation" against Russia in Ukraine.

"The SU-35 aircrafts also showed a low level of durability," a Ukrainian general posted on Facebook.

"The entire NATO bloc is fighting a war against Russia, on the territory of Ukraine and by the Ukrainians' hands," Sergey Kiriyenko said.

"The recovery efforts demonstrate the U.S. Navy's capabilities to conduct deep-water search and recovery operations world-wide," said the Sixth Fleet.

As Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine staggers through its sixth month, the risk of a catastrophic nuclear war between Russia and NATO grows with each bloody day.

Chilling scenes show naval medics dealing with the aftermath of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear attacks.

"We have to ask ourselves, are we going to watch Ukraine bleed out?" ambassador Bartosz Cichocki asked.

It is critical that the White House outline its strategy now for how to continue exporting grain from Ukraine while protecting the most vulnerable populations from a war-induced famine.

"Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, NATO forces stand ready to secure allied airspace against all threats," NATO said in a video Thursday.

The GOP senator said expanding the alliance would not make America stronger and the U.S. should focus on China, not Russia.

The Missouri GOP senator said the U.S. can't prioritize both NATO and China at the same time.

This week's vote and our trip to Eastern Europe has made one thing abundantly clear: the free world stands united against Vladimir Putin's would-be empire building, and is ready to respond against his illegal and immoral military attacks.

Ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko told Newsweek how Vladimir Putin's Russia can be driven out of Ukraine.

NATO is "prepared to intervene" if tensions flare up between Kosovo and Serbia.

The former president made the remarks on the same podcast where he called Putin's military tactics "genius."

Retired U.S. Army General Mark Hertling said Moscow's efforts to rush reconstituting its depleted forces "exponentially damages morale and fighting capability."

Retired U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis said Russia's military has shown "very little appetite or inclination to improve."

The nuclear capable weapon was supposed to be ready by the end of 2022, but it will be deployed ahead of time, Tass news agency reported.

"Russia has not utilized its full military potential in the attack against Ukraine," the report, published by the NATO Defense College, said.

Oleksandr Zavitnevych warned "naive" Western officials not to buy into what he called a Russian "special psychological operation."

CIA Director William Burns described the Russian leader as "an apostle of payback."

Russia's Vladimir Putin told a forum in Moscow that the West cannot offer "its own model of the future."

The U.S. Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., said there were a "number of different platforms that could go to Ukraine."

"The price we pay as the European Union, as NATO, is the price we can measure in currency, in money," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

Congress members who voted "no" were dubbed "Putin patriots," by Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov.

A White House Advisor told a Senate subcommittee that it was "not anticipated" that the Russians "would earn so much money from the sale of oil."

"We are ready to go further on orders, to easily take Kyiv and the NATO countries," Chechen Leader Ramzan Kadyrov wrote Sunday in a Telegram post.

A viral video has been used to perpetuate Russian disinformation and propaganda, but the "evidence" doesn't stand up to scrutiny, Newsweek Fact Check found.