WW4 File: Poland issues navigation warning for civilian aircraft along Belarusian and Kaliningrad borders for period between Feb. 5 and May 5, warning includes Warsaw and refers to “unplanned military activity”; Putin made surprise visit to Kaliningrad exclave on Jan. 25, follows contention over deployment of Russian tactical nukes in Belarus, redeployment of US counter- parts in UK, Dep. FM Sergei Ryabkov denies Kremlin intends to place nukes in Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua after Russian lawmaker Aleksey Zhuravlev urges such deployments: “No, it is not planned. The deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus was carried out to counter the increasingly aggressive and threatening activities of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) led by the United States. If they believe that re-introduction of nuclear weapons in the UK is a deter- rent to Russia, then they are mistaken”; meanwhile 40,000 Russian troops, with 500 tanks and 650 armored vehicles, assemble in small, occupied portion of Kharkiv Oblast, presumably to retake liberated territory, renew attacks against oblast capital of same name

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