From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   Published Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022 | 5:21 a.m.   
      
   Updated 6 minutes ago   
      
   KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian nuclear   
   deterrent forces put on high alert amid tensions with the West over his   
   invasion of Ukraine.   
      
   Speaking at a meeting with his top officials, Putin asserted on Sunday   
   that leading NATO powers had made “aggressive statements” along with the   
   West imposing hard-hitting financial sanctions against Russia, including   
   the president himself.   
      
   Putin ordered the Russian defense minister and the chief of the military’s   
   General Staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a “special regime of   
   combat duty.”   
      
   His order raised the threat that the tensions with the West over the   
   invasion in Ukraine could lead to the use of nuclear weapons.   
      
   The Russian leader this week threatened to retaliate harshly against any   
   nations that intervened directly in the conflict in Ukraine.   
      
   https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/feb/27/putin-puts-russias-nucl   
   ar-deterrent-forces-on-ale/   
      
   ### - he's upped the ante...   
      
   it IS getting nasty now!   
      
   damn :(   
      
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