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Putin says US and UK were behind Black Sea 'provocation'

by Daria LitvinovaVladimir Isachenkov
| June 30, 2021 7:30 AM

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that an incident involving a British destroyer in the Black Sea couldn't have triggered a global conflict even if Russia had sunk the warship because the West knows it can't win such a war.

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