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May 3, 2022

Pentagon Says Putin May Soon Formally Declare War on Ukraine
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Today President Biden is visiting a Lockheed Martin plant in Alabama
that manufactures Javelin anti-tank missiles that the U.S. is supplying
to Ukraine. His trip comes after the Pentagon said Russian President
Vladimir Putin could formally declare war on Ukraine as soon as May 9 -
the Russian holiday known as "Victory Day," which commemorates the
Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. A declaration of war
would further free up Putin to mobilize Russia's reserve forces and
draft more conscripts. So far Putin has only referred to the invasion as
a "special military operation." We'll have the latest on Russia's
invasion of Ukraine later in the broadcast. 


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