Kira Rudik, people’s deputy of Ukraine, told Newsmax on Tuesday that most of her country’s citizens are “not afraid of the escalation” with Russia “because escalation is what we are living under every single day.”

Earlier on Tuesday it was reported that Ukraine had targeted a Russian weapons arsenal using long-range U.S.-made ATACMS missiles. The attack marked a major escalation on the 1,000th day of the war.

The Associated Press reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin formally lowered the country’s threshold for use of a nuclear weapon, even in response to a conventional attack.

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