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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during a briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House says no imminent nuke threat following Biden’s ‘Armageddon’ remarks

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A Russian rocket sticks out of the ground in a forest near Oleksandrivka village, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Missiles, drones hit Zaporizhzhia again as death toll rises

By Adam Schreck - Associated Press

USAID Administrator Samantha Power in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, traveled to Kyiv to hold meetings with government officials and residents. She said the U.S. would provide an additional $55 million to repair heating pipes and other equipment. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, Pool)

Live Updates: Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Orthodox Easter service in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, April 24, 2022. Putin, who turned 70 on Friday, has found himself increasingly cornered with his army suffering humiliating defeats in Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Russians fleeing his mobilization order and rifts opening up among his top lieutenants. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

Putin’s path: from pledges of stability to nuclear threats

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President Joe Biden announces Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court at the White House in Washington on Feb. 25, 2022, left, and President Vladimir Putin speaks during a visit to the construction site of the National Space Agency at Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 27, 2022. The invasion of Ukraine has rapidly returned echoes of a Cold War mentality to the United States, with a familiar foe in Russia. (AP Photo)

Biden says it ‘remains to be seen’ whether he will meet with Putin at G-20 summit

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks at an IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Thursday Oct. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden warns risk of nuclear ‘Armageddon’ approaching Cuban Missile Crisis heights

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Ukrainian soldiers sit on an armoured vehicle as they drive on a road between Izium and Lyman in Ukraine, Tuesday Oct. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Live Updates: Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A man rides his bicycle past a damaged building in the village of Drobysheve near the recaptured town of Lyman, Ukraine, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

As winter looms, a frozen war takes shape in Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration on the despots and tyrants' mind by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The problem with tyrants like Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin

By Clifford D. May

Illustration on Russian army ineptitude by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Why Is Putin’s army inept?

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

A man pumps water in front of destroyed house in the recently recaptured town of Lyman, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. Lyman resident live without electricity, gas and running water since mid of May. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Live Updates: Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, watches through binoculars as Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu sits near during the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus Zapad-2021 at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia, on Sept. 13, 2021. Putin's threats to use &quot;all the means at our disposal&quot; to defend his country as it wages war in Ukraine have cranked up global fears that he might use his nuclear arsenal, with the world's largest stockpile of warheads. (Sergei Savostyanov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

What’s Putin thinking? Tough to know for nuclear analysts

By John Leicester - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers remove metal structure pieces as they work on a bridge damaged during fighting with Russian troops in Izium, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. A series of embarrassing military losses for Moscow in recent weeks has presented a growing challenge for prominent hosts of Russian news and political talk shows scrambling to find ways to paint Kyiv's gains in a way that is still favorable to the Kremlin. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Frustration with Ukraine war spills out on Russian state TV

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Ukrainian soldiers fire in the recently retaken city of Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Sept. 23, 2022. A series of embarrassing military losses for Moscow in recent weeks has presented a growing challenge for prominent hosts of Russian news and political talk shows scrambling to find ways to paint Kyiv's gains in a way that is still favorable to the Kremlin. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov, File)

As Russian troops fall back, nuclear fears advance

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Ukrainian servicemen drive a tank on the way to Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Inna Varenytsia)

Ukraine presses counteroffensive after Russian setback

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin talks during the press conference with Minister of Defence of Latvia Artis Pabriks during the press conference in Riga, Latvia, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)

Austin calls Putin’s nuke threats ‘irresponsible’

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the Armed Forces of Denmark, a view the disturbance in the water above the gas leak, in the Baltic Sea, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Following the suspected sabotage this week of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines that carry Russian natural gas to Europe, there were two leaks off Sweden, including a large one above North Stream 1, and a smaller one above North Stream 2. (Rune Dyrholm/Armed Forces of Denmark via AP)

Danes: Nord Stream 2 pipeline seems to have stopped leaking

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People walk toward the border crossing between Georgia and Russia at Verkhny Lars, as they leave Chmi, North Ossetia–Alania Republic, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Long lines of vehicles have formed at a border crossing between Russia's North Ossetia region and Georgia after Moscow announced a partial military mobilization. (AP Photo)

Fewer Russians cross border to flee despite military call-up

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during celebrations marking the incorporation of regions of Ukraine to join Russia in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. The signing of the treaties making the four regions part of Russia follows the completion of the Kremlin-orchestrated "referendums." (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Defiant Putin hails annexation of Ukrainian regions, says West wants Russia as ‘colony’

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds binoculars while watching the military exercises Center-2019 at Donguz shooting range near Orenburg, Russia, in Sept. 20, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that he wouldn't hesitate to use nuclear weapons to ward off Ukraine's attempt to reclaim control of its occupied regions that Moscow is about to absorb. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

How real are Putin’s nuclear threats in Ukraine?

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