“Nicosia has developed a plan whose ultimate goal is NATO membership, fully aware of the serious obstacles it is bound to face. White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan called it a ‘win-win,’ adding that ‘the prospects that such a development would be enormous,’” according to the report.

“The strengthening of Cyprus' new role at the center of American strategy in the region is also reflected in President Christodoulidis' contacts with the Republican majority in Congress immediately after Donald Trump’s election victory. In a telephone conversation with senators closely working with the incoming US president, the new leadership’s intention to maintain and further strengthen Cyprus’ role in the region was reaffirmed,” the article said.

“I’m being sent guys, 50 plus, with doctors’ notes telling me they are too ill to serve,” the report says quoting a senior Ukrainian official. “At times it feels like I’m managing a day-care centre rather than a combat unit,” official said.

“Anyone can shoot,” the recruit says. “It’s hitting the target I’m not so good at.”

💬 "For our adversaries out there that think this is a time of opportunity, that they can play one administration off the other, they're wrong," Waltz said.

💬 “The resource of reservists is not unlimited, and it is very difficult for people to be so absent in the midst of daily life. That is why there is a silent refusal to report for service, without protests or in a public way. They cannot be argued with, or demanded by force to come,” army sources told Yedioth Ahronoth. There is also anger over a controversial draft bill that seeks to exempt approximately 60,000 ultra-Orthodox Haredi men from military service.

"Tehran has always believed that the nuclear issue should be resolved through diplomacy. Iran has never left the talks," a senior Iranian official was cited by Reuters as saying.