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To occupy Ukraine Vladimir Putin ‘miscalculated’ Russia’s ability

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US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he believes his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is a normally rational actor who badly misjudged his prospects of occupying Ukraine. For what he has described as an “off-ramp” as his administration looks, the President spoke out in a rare televised interview for Putin to de-escalate his invasion of Ukraine before he resorts to weapons of mass destruction. Biden told reporters after Moscow’s shelling of civilian targets across its neighbour marked an escalation in the seven-month conflict “I think he is a rational actor who has miscalculated significantly”. To use nuclear weapons to assist Russia’s faltering attempt to take over swaths of Ukraine about the dangers from Putin’s thinly veiled threats, last week Biden warned that the world risks “Armageddon” in unusually direct remarks. After the Russian President suffered a series of recent military set-backs in the invasion, which he launched in February Putin’s state of mind has been the su...

Across Ukraine Putin orders attacks

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After Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighbouring Ukraine more than six months ago, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout eastern and southern Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President, in August whose forces began an offensive, has vowed to take back all Russian-occupied territory. Putin announced a mobilization of reservists, which is expected to call up as many as 300,000 additional troops in September. On Monday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia’s missile assault on civilian targets in Ukraine showed Russia’s “true face”.  According to the Ukrainian State Emergency Service Eleven people have died and 64 are hurt across eight oblasts and the city of Kyiv.  Zelenksyy said on Twitter “Of a terrorist state the world once again saw the true face that is killing our people”. “On the battlefield & in peaceful cities. With talks about peace in a country that covers its true bl...