New U.S.-Russia military hotline as Ukraine war rages
Source: Reuters
… The U.S. and its allies are also channeling millions of dollars worth of weaponry to Ukraine's armed forces, which are using the arms against Russian troops, despite Moscow's warnings against foreign interference.
"The Department of the Defense recently established a de-confliction line with the Russian ministry of defense on March 1 for the purposes of preventing miscalculation, military incidents, and escalation," a senior U.S. defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirming a move first reported by NBC.
The U.S. military has successful created hotlines with Russia in the past, including during the war in Syria, where Moscow intervened on the side of President Bashar al-Assad. There, the United States and Russia were waging parallel military campaigns, with the United States focused on battling Islamic State.
The move is just the latest effort to lower soaring tension between the United States and Russia, where President Vladimir Putin -- in a clear warning to the West -- announced last weekend he was putting his nuclear forces on high alert. Putin's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, was quoted on Wednesday warning that a Third World War would be a nuclear conflict, remarks that added to growing unease.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/new-us-russia-military-hotline-ukraine-war-rages-2022-03-03/
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