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Nato allies swiftly closed ranks when Emmanuel Macron said what you are really not supposed to say.

French President Emmanuel Macron has smashed a major taboo by floating the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine, raising the stakes in a showdown with a nuclear-armed Russia.Gabuev pointed out that a small number of Western troops and volunteers were already on the ground in Ukraine, adding that he could not imagine French society backing the idea of sending a large French contingent to fight there.

Russia will escalate an ongoing influence operation this spring aimed at destabilising Ukraine and scuppering international support for Kyiv in its two-year-old war with Moscow, Ukrainian intelligence warned on Tuesday. Ukraine is struggling to fend off Russian troops along much of the front line as Kyiv faces challenges in replenishing its ranks and a potential cut in U.S. military aid. The Kremlin will bolster its invasion by stepping up efforts to seed disinformation on social media, sparki...

"The situation near Avdiivka is very difficult,” Third Separate Assault Brigade Deputy Commander Maxym Zhorin, wrote on Telegram on Feb. 27.

Russian forces struck the village of Veletenske in Kherson Oblast on Feb. 27, killing an 82-year-old woman, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported.

Russia is actively using drones of various types to reconnoiter the front line, particularly in the southern sector and Kharkiv Oblast, Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, said during the national telethon program on Feb. 27.

Nato allies swiftly closed ranks when Emmanuel Macron said what you are really not supposed to say.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces withdrew from the Stepove and Severne villages near Avdiivka, Dmytro Lykhovii, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Tavria Group, said on national television on Feb. 27. The two villages are located north of Lastochkyne, which was occupied by Russian troops on Feb. 26.

Ukraine is on track to lose additional territories in the coming months due to a lack of military support from the US, White House National Security Communications adviser John Kirby said on Tuesday.

Wargames are a low-cost way for militaries to avoid costly mistakes. One think tank re-examined how it'd gotten the Russian military so wrong.