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Russia on Thursday issued a warning to the U.S. over the proposed transfer of Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine.

Washington is likely to approve a deal this week to send the advanced missile systems to Ukraine, after months of requests from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the U.S. provide his country with stronger weapons to shoot down Russian missiles.

Russia has for months been bombarding Ukraine with strikes on its energy infrastructure, causing blackouts across the country .
During a press conference on Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, citing experts, warned that possible deliveries of the systems by Washington to Kyiv could escalate the conflict.

"On December 13, the intention of the United States to provide Ukraine with a...

A Chinese official told Newsweek that Beijing rejects the Pentagon 's characterization of growing People's Liberation Army capabilities in a new report, arguing that it was the United States stirring nuclear tensions, not China.

The Department of Defense published its latest assessment on "Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China" on Wednesday, making note of a number of observations, including a growing Chinese nuclear weapons and ballistic missile force .

The report estimated that the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force has already doubled its intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) force from 150 to 300 and would seek to nearly quadruple its nuclear warhead from a current count of somewhere above 400 to 1,500 by 2035.

But Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese...