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Disparches

1) “Ukraine-Russia war: Ukraine has legal right to attack Moscow, says Germany,” The Telegraph, August 22, 2023 (3:43pm);

2) Eric Schmitt, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, “Ukraine’s Forces and Firepower Are Misallocated, U.S. Officials Say;
American strategists say Ukraine’s troops are too spread out and need to concentrate along the counteroffensive’s main front in the south,” New York Times, August 22, 2023 (1:43 pm ET);

3) David Axe, “China’s Taiwan invasion: Battle for the Strait will be a colossal missile duelm” The Telegraph, August 22, 2022 (12:28 pm);

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