Updated Dec. 13, 2023 at 12:10 p.m.It was exactly 20 years ago that Saddam Hussein was captured by the United States military in the town of Ad-Dawr, Iraq.
So-called "convalescent regiments" have been formed within the Russian army in an apparently desperate, and inhumane, attempt to avoid a deepening shortage of troops.
The 20 stone General Pavel, 67, has been summoned from his comfortable retirement in the Moscow suburbs and told to don his army fatigues and go to the front lines of eastern Ukraine.
We did not provide Ukraine with specific targeting information for the Moskva, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday in response to media reports.