Reuters
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President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia will respond swiftly if it thinks Europe is provoking it and said that almost all of the U.S.-led NATO alliance was now fighting against Russia over Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine, Europe’s deadliest since World War Two, has sparked the biggest confrontation between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Putin, speaking at the Valdai Discussion Group in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, said Russian forces were advancing along the entire front in Ukraine.
“All the NATO countries are fighting with us,” Putin said.
NATO members, he said, were…
