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Zelensky: Russia buying Iranian drones is proof of its military, political bankruptcy

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“We should remember that the very fact of Russia’s appeal to Iran for assistance is the Kremlin’s recognition of its military and political bankruptcy,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address on Oct. 18. “It won’t help them strategically anyways,” he said. “It only further proves to the world that Russia is on a trajectory of defeat and is trying to draw in someone else as an accomplice in terror.”

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The Russian and Chinese navies are conducting joint military exercises in the Sea of Japan, the Kremlin said Aug. 3, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of nuclear submarines in a show of force toward Moscow.

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