[HIGHLIGHTS] Before major NATO maneuvers: Putin confidant Medvedev threatens “big war”

Before major NATO maneuvers: Putin confidant Medvedev threatens “big war”. NATO exercise “Steadfast Defender 2024”: 90,000 soldiers, including 13,000 Germans.

Germany wants to equip the Ukrainians with Leopard 1 tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles for large units. Ukraine is threatened with a serious loss of Avdiivka: Kiev is therefore taking a tank risk. The Baltics could be cut off by land routes by NATO: The fear is that the land routes could be taken by Russia.