Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate foreign relations committee, said the Biden administration had been too slow to send systems such as main battle tanks and cluster munitions that ultimately made their way to the battlefield.

"I'm tired of hearing about escalation. Stop talking about escalation. If you don't escalate, you're gonna lose," he said. "I want [Vladimir] Putin to wake up in the morning worried about what he's going to do that's gonna cause us to escalate instead of us wringing our hands."

For the first time ever, a Russian military court has treated combat service in Ukraine as an "extenuating circumstance" in a murder case, sparing a corporal from prison after he stabbed his ex-wife 16 times, killing a mother of three children. https://t.co/SELD8PV1NT

— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) July 22, 2023