Russia-Ukraine war latest updates – The Washington Post 

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Moscow has expanded its territorial ambitions in Ukraine, Russia’s foreign minister said Wednesday, in one of the most explicit signals yet that the Kremlin will attempt to seize land beyond the country’s eastern Donbas region. The proclamation followed a warning from the White House that Russia plans to annex swaths of Ukraine’s east and south.
As Moscow broadened its war aims, U.S. officials weighed providing Ukraine with new fighter jets and the training necessary to operate them, a step that would deepen Western involvement in the war and fulfill persistent requests from Kyiv for more weapons.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
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