Vladimir Putin unleashes a strike against a Ukrainian base along the Polish border.

Iran fires missiles at the U.S. consulate in Erbil, Iraq, and China generously offers to mediate

between Russia and Ukraine.

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So Russia continues to ratchet up the pressure in this war on Ukraine.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the latest that a Russian air strike on a Ukrainian

military training center close to the Polish border threw

into sharp relief the hazards of the Western push to deliver arms support to Kiev while avoiding direct conflict with a nuclear adversary.

Theirstrike killed 35 people at the facility in Yavarev, about 10 miles from the Polish border early on Sunday,

far to the west, where the conflict has been concentrated. If you look at the map, you can see the Kiev is sort of, you know,

two-thirds of the way west of the eastern boundary of Ukraine. And this particular facility

is right on the border. It's one day after Moscow warned the West who would consider

arms deliveries to Ukraine as legitimate targets. A large portion of the military aid from the West

passes through Poland into Western Ukraine. Part of the fine line, the U.S. and NATO are walking between aiding Ukraine militarily, while steering clear of providing

troops or enforcing a no-fly zone that Ukraine has called for. The expansion of Russia's

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