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Pentagon Press Conference Underway Shortly

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Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh is shortly due to brief the press from the Department of Defence.

  • https://www.defense.gov/News/Live-Events/#/?currentVideo=30741
  • The presser comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Human Rights Council of Russia today that, 'threat of nuclear war is rising'.
  • Putin: "We will not initiate the use of nuclear weapons, and we will only use them in response to a nuclear attack."
  • This week has seen the prospect of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine recede, with Russia claiming that Ukraine conducted drone attacks on a military site within Russian territory.
  • Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned off "phoney" offramps which may be employed by Putin to "freeze" the conflict: “One of the things that you can imagine is the Russians trying to find an off-ramp that would be a phony off-ramp by which I mean, let’s have a ceasefire, let’s just freeze things in place, get a frozen conflict, never negotiate about the territory that they have seized, and continue to hold, rest, refit, regroup, re-attack."

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