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Nominee to Pentagon’s No. 2 won’t affirm Russia invaded Ukraine

By Mike Brest
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President Donald Trump‘s nominee to serve as the deputy secretary of defense declined to acknowledge that Russia invaded Ukraine during his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday.

Stephen Feinberg, who was the co-founder and co-CEO of Cerberus prior to his nomination to be the Pentagon’s No. 2, is the latest member or nominee of the administration to dodge questions of Russia’s culpability in the war it escalated three years ago.

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