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Putin to Leverage Nuclear Threat as War Drags On, Zelenskiy Says
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he expects Vladimir Putin to leverage his warnings over nuclear weapons as a way to divide Ukraine’s allies, saying Russia’s atomic threat is a “fragile point” in the alliance. As Russia’s invasion approaches its 19th month, Zelenskiy said he expected the Kremlin leader to step up threats over the winter, moving nuclear weapons to different positions and attempting to trigger blackouts in war-battered Ukraine, Zelenskiy said. “Putin has only one option — to frighten the world with nuclear weapons,” Zelenskiy told the annual Yalta European Strategy forum, organized by ... (full story)