NEWS INPUTS ALSO SENT BY MICHAEL BARUAH, OUR NORTH AMERICA CORRESPONDENT.
TIGER TEAM.
Reports said that the White House has formed a team of national security officials to chalk out scenarios of how the United States and its allies should respond if Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashes his stockpiles of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
The group, said to be called ‘The Tiger Team’, is also examining responses if Putin reaches into NATO territory to attack convoys bringing weapons and aid to Ukraine, according to several officials involved in the process, the New York Times reported.
The team is meeting three times a week in classified sessions, the report said. The team is also looking at responses if Russia seeks to extend the war to neighboring nations, including Moldova and Georgia, and how to prepare European countries for the refugees flowing in on a scale not seen in decades.
