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Evening Standard
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Michael Howie

Ukraine war: Missile strikes ‘expose malice and cruelty of Putin’s invasion’, says US as war crimes probe launched

More than 50 Western countries have met to promise more weapons for Ukraine, focusing on its need for air defences after Moscow launched its most intense missile strikes since the start of the war.

Opening the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the headquarters of Nato in Brussels on Wednesday, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said Russia’s huge wave of missile attacks this week had laid bare the “malice and cruelty” of its war.

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