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Russian troops withdraw from Norway border in drop since start of Ukraine war: officialNorwegian chief of defense claims Putin 'knows very well' NATO is not a threat to Russia
 By Danielle Wallace Fox News
Published September 17, 2023 11:03am EDT

Norway said Russian forces have pulled back from its border in the Arctic, claiming the number of soldiers Moscow has there now is "20% or less" compared to the start of the Ukraine war. On our border, our region’s border there is maybe 20% or less forces, less than before Feb. 24, 2022," Norwegian Chief of Defense Gen. Eirik Kristoffersen said Saturday. 

 After a meeting of the chiefs of defense of NATO countries held in Oslo, Kristoffersen claimed at a press conference that Russian President Vladimir Putin "knows very well" that the alliance is not a threat against Russia. "Neither Norway, nor Sweden, nor Finland, nor Poland are threatening Russia," he said. "If he believed that we were threatening Russia, he couldn't have moved on his troops to Ukraine to fight the war there."

 Norway, a NATO member since 1949 following the end of World War II, shares a border with Russia in the Artic by the Kola Peninsula, where most of the Kremlin's nuclear weapons are stationed, as well as its Northern Fleet, which operates Russia's nuclear submarines, according to Reuters. 

 If Russia believed NATO was a threat, chair of the NATO Military Committee, Adm. Rob Bauer, added, Moscow would have responded "completely different" to Finland’s induction into the alliance in April. "They have talked about it, but they haven't in physical terms," he said at the press conference. 

https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-t ... r-official

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Dark Brandon is smiling.

https://youtu.be/oC6CcB-7sy0?si=nBPtSMjZLyJYq2E_
 

Now all we need is for Zelenskyy and his Nazis to pack up and get out of Russia's Ukrainian province.

Warcok » 17 Sep 2023, 12:52 pm » wrote: ↑

17 Sep 2023, 12:52 pm

Now all we need is for Zelenskyy and his Nazis to pack up and get out of Russia's Ukrainian province.

When Fox News runs stories like this, they are preparing for a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula.

 —-KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian forces recaptured a war-ravaged settlement in the country’s embattled east, Kyiv’s military leaders said Friday, a small territorial win in a churning counteroffensive marked so far by small victories but no major breakthroughs.
 The taking of the village of Andriivka, 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of Russian-occupied city of Bakhmut, underscores just how difficult Ukraine's multipronged counteroffensive is shaping up to be.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Internationa ... -103212399

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When Ukraine uses the staggeringly superior arms and munitions supplied by NATO to cut the land bridge to Crimea then two cruise missiles can drop the Kerch Bridge into the Black Sea.

Which would starve Putin’s troops in Crimea in less than a month.

Checkmate for Zellensky.