NATO’s leader says Putin ‘is failing’ in the war and urges more weapons for Ukraine.

NATO is “closely monitoring” Russia’s nuclear forces and is “not seeing any changes in Russia’s posture,” Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary-general, told a news conference on Tuesday. But he said that a planned NATO nuclear-deterrence exercise would go ahead next week, because to cancel it “would be absolutely the wrong signal to send” to Moscow. Read more

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