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Mobilisation and nuclear threat: Putin’s Ukraine invasion stokes superpower rivalries

By France24
22 September 2022   |   9:10 am
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, it deployed 160,000 troops. Vladimir Putin has now called up 300,000 after major setbacks in Ukraine, while coupling his announcement with his most overt nuclear threat to the West.

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