President Joe Biden said last week that the risk of 'Armageddon' facing humanity was greater than it had been at any point since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
, U.S. officials have said they've observed no change in the posture of Russia's nuclear forces that would require a change in the alert level of America's nuclear forces.hammered Ukraine with missiles
for a second day on Tuesday. The first barrage of missiles and drones on Monday was Russia's largest attack in months, and it left at least 19 people dead and about 100 wounded. McMaster said it was the scale of the recent attacks — spanning across virtually all of Ukraine, an area roughly the size of Texas — that stood out to him.
"Eighty-four cruise missiles launched from various locations, about 24 drones, some of these suicide drones provided to the Russians by the Iranians," McMaster said,"and the targets were to terrorize the Ukrainian people." Russia said the strikes targeted Ukraine's infrastructure, and they did knock out power in many cities, but the missiles also slammed into apartment buildings, schools and busy intersections at rush hour.
"All of this was meant to affect Ukraine's will in a negative way," McMaster said."Of course, I think it has had the opposite effect... I think it's bolstered the will of the Ukrainians to fight for their sovereignty and their freedom.""They never get the truth, right? I mean, whatever Putin says, the opposite is reality," he said.
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