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Vladimir Putin’s behavior in ordering an invasion of Ukraine has some in the West questioning whether he has become dangerously unstable.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For two decades, Vladimir Putin has struck rivals as reckless, impulsive. But his behavior in ordering an invasion of Ukraine — and now putting Russia's nuclear forces on high alert — has some in the West questioning whether the Russian president has become dangerously unstable.

For two decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin has struck his rivals as reckless and impulsive, but his behavior in ordering an invasion of Ukraine — and now putting Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert — has some in the West questioning whether he has become dangerously unstable. In the past week, Putin has rambled on television about Ukraine, repeated conspiracy theories about neo-Nazism and Western aggression, and berated his own foreign intelligence chief on camera from the other s...

For two decades, Vladimir Putin has struck rivals as reckless, impulsive. But his behavior in ordering an invasion of Ukraine — and now putting Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert — has some in the West questioning whether the Russian president has become dangerously unstable.

For two decades, Vladimir Putin has struck rivals as reckless, impulsive. But his behavior in ordering an invasion of Ukraine — and now putting Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert — has some in the West questioning whether the Russian president has become dangerously unstable. In recent days, Putin has rambled on television about Ukraine,…

Radiation at the Chernobyl nuclear plant spiked above control levels, Ukraine warned the day after Russian forces captured the infamous plant during the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert, but is there reason to worry?

Not since the Cold War have the stakes been so high, as experts rush to understand Putin’s nuclear strategy and plot counter moves

Whatever it is, U.S. officials are calling it escalatory–but not “high alert.”

Whatever it is, U.S. officials are calling it escalatory–but not “high alert.”