Russia’s Shoigu says Ukraine depleted, war showing weakness of Western weapons

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[1/2] Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu delivers a speech at XI Moscow conference on international security in the Moscow region, Russia, August 15, 2023. Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS MOSCOW, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Russia's defence minister told officials on Tuesday that Ukraine's ability to fight had been "almost exhausted" and said the war had exposed vulnerabilities in Western weapons systems that Moscow would soon share. The war has sown devastation across swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine, killed or injured hundreds of thousands and triggered the biggest rupture in Russia's ties with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile...