John Kirby: ‘We recognize … how critical it is that the United States and Russia bear in mind the risk of miscalculation and take steps to reduce those risks.’ Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
The Guardian/Reuters: Pentagon sets up hotline with Russia to avert Ukraine ‘miscalculation’
US has no troops in Ukraine but it and Nato allies in Europe are worried about potential spillover from Russian invasion
The Pentagon has established a new hotline with Russia’s ministry of defense to prevent “miscalculation, military incidents and escalation” in the region as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine advances, a US official told Reuters on Thursday.
The US says it has no troops in Ukraine but it and Nato allies in Europe are worried about potential spillover, including accidents, as Russia stages the largest assault on a European state since the second world war.
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WNU Editor: The U.S. and Russia have a hotline on Syria. In that war zone there has been times when the other side did not pick up the phone.
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A human hotline in the age of hypersonic delivery platforms.. lol.. you have maybe 30seconds to call the missiles off after launch.. they take about 5min to hit when launched from a sub off the coast of FL/CA
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