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An internal probe of US defense chief Lloyd Austin’s failure to reveal his hospitalization has found no “ill intent” An internal Pentagon review of the secrecy surrounding US defense chief Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization last month has determined that while communication processes should be improved, there was no serious wrongdoing by senior officials.

Kiev’s backers worry that the targeting of Russian political figures could play into Moscow’s hands, Mark Galeotti has suggested Ukrainian terrorist attacks on prominent Russian public figures are widening the rift between Western and Kiev’s intelligence services, Mark Galeotti, a British historian and expert on modern Russia, has said.