GOP leaders from Madison Cawthorn's home state are backing his primary challenger after the congressman's orgy comments

Rep. Madison Cawthorn has come under fire from senior members of the GOP in his home state of North Carolina.

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• Several GOP senators are backing North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn's primary challenger, Chuck Edwards.
• Cawthorn claimed he had witnessed his Congress colleagues using cocaine and that he was invited to an orgy.
• Sen. Thom Tillis slammed Cawthorn, saying he embarrassed the state with his "juvenile behavior" and "outlandish statements."

Several Republican Party leaders in North Carolina are backing Rep. Madison Cawthorn's primary challenger following the congressman's claims that he had witnessed "sexual perversion" and drug use among his Congress colleagues.

On Thursday, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis released a strongly worded statement criticizing Cawthorn for falling "well short of the most basic standards Western North Carolina expects from their representatives."

Throwing his weight behind Cawthorn's challenger, Chuck Edwards, Tillis wrote that Edwards would "never embarrass Western North Carolina with a consistent pattern of juvenile behavior, outlandish statements, and untruthfulness." 

"The 11th Congressional District deserves a congressman who is fully dedicated to serving their constituents," Tillis wrote.

"Chuck Edwards has proven he's a hardworking conservative leader who delivers conservative results. He'll never give up on his day job in search of celebrity status in Washington DC with no record of results to speak of," Tillis wrote.

Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported that House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger, two top GOP figures in the North Carolina state legislature, had backed Edwards at a fundraiser on Thursday.

At the event, Moore also told local news outlet WNCN-TV that Cawthorn did not deserve to be elected to Congress.

"If you have clowns in office who aren't serious about what they're doing, you can't get somewhere," Moore said, per the outlet. "I'm just kind of without the words to describe what Congressman Cawthorn is doing and saying. I mean, some of these ridiculous recent comments that continue to build on one another."

Sen. Richard Burr, an outgoing senior GOP senator from North Carolina, also had harsh words for Cawthorn, telling CNN: "On any given day, he's an embarrassment." 

Even GOP lawmakers from outside the state have rebuked Cawthorn.

Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon told CNN that Cawthorn's comments were "terrible." Meanwhile, North Dakota Rep. Kelly Armstrong told the outlet that the angel and devil on Cawthorn's shoulders likely took the form of "Lloyd Christmas on one shoulder and Harry Dunne on the other shoulder," referencing the protagonists of the comedy film "Dumb and Dumber." 

Cawthorn had stoked the ire of the GOP leadership when he claimed last week that he had witnessed members of DC's elite using cocaine in front of him and had also been invited to orgies. He was later spoken to by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who publicly rebuked Cawthorn, saying the latter had "lost his trust."

In March, Cawthorn sparked controversy when he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "thug" and labeled the Ukrainian government "evil." He later doubled down on the comments even after being called an "outlier" by Republican senators. 

Despite the criticism hurled at him, Cawthorn has remained defiant. 

"The radical left, the establishment, and the media want to take me down. Their attacks have been relentless. I won't stop fighting. I won't bow to the mob," the congressman tweeted on Thursday. 

"They want to silence the America First movement. I'm not going anywhere," he added. 

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African blue basil to normal holy basil ratio

I sort of understand that normal holy basil is used in every pesto recipe but I grow African blue basil which is normally a lot stronger. I'm gonna be making a pesto with it and don't want to overpower anything, is there a conversion ratio for this at all?

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Why does chicken make a demiglace during the cooking process, and yet beef oozes myoglobin?

Everytime I make a chicken, i get a delicious brown sauce that beef does not make. The only comparable beef pan sauces require a reduction to a mother sauce and adding ingredients to it and it takes hours or days to make. Thanks!

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Here are the 12 House Republicans that voted for a key piece of Biden's stalled economic agenda on prescription drugs

The House voted to cap the cost of insulin, breaking off a piece of Biden's stalled Build Back Better plan.

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• The House passed a bill to cap insulin costs at $35 per month, for people with insurance or Medicare coverage.
• Democrats broke off a chunk of Build Back Better and some GOP lawmakers joined them.
• Here's a list of House Republicans that supported a key piece of Biden's agenda.

The House approved a bill on Thursday to cap the cost of insulin at $35 per month for those with private insurance or Medicare starting in 2023. It's part of an election-year push from Democrats to address the rising cost of prescription drugs ahead of the November midterms — and to break off a piece of President Joe Biden's stalled economic agenda.

The vote for the Affordable Insulin Now Act was 232-193 with 12 Republicans joining every House Democrat in support. Five Republicans and one Democrat were absent.

Here are the 12 House Republicans that approved the measure:

• Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska
• Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania
• Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland
• Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington
• Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina
• Rep. John Katko of New York
• Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York
• Rep. Daniel Meuser of Pennsylvania
• Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa
• Rep. Bill Posey of Florida
• Rep. Christopher Smith of New Jersey
• Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan

The measure would cap the out-of-pocket cost of insulin at $35 per month starting in 2023. It would only apply to Americans covered by private health insurance or Medicare prescription drug benefits. It wouldn't limit costs for the uninsured.

The bill is not likely to advance in the Senate in its current form, given Republicans are generally opposed to government price controls in healthcare. At least 10 Republicans would need to join all 50 Senate Democrats to clear the chamber's 60-vote threshold known as the filibuster.

The measure formed a key part of Biden's Build Back Better legislation. But the House-approved bill has gathered dust for the past three months due to opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Manchin wants a slimmer bill to limit prescription drug costs, though its unclear if that will materialize.

A bipartisan effort is underway in the Senate to try and strike a deal on restricting insulin costs. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Susan Collins of Alaska are spearheading the talks. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he hopes to put an insulin bill for a floor vote shortly after Easter.

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Ubiquiti seeks $425K in damages against industry blogger Brian Krebs

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Do vanilla beans contain alcohol?

I know vanilla extract contains alcohol, but what about the vanilla beans themselves? Are they alcohol-free?

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Make twice baked potatoes without the skins falling apart

I've tried doing twice baked potatoes twice now and each time the potatoes kinda fall apart easily when cutting them in half and starting to hollow them out.

I always leave a layer of potato on the edges and bottom like you're supposed to but the skin will just break when I'm handling them even before they have been hollowed out. The skin likes to just come away from the potato.

I stab em with a fork, cover them in oil, salt, pepper and other various seasonings and then cook at 350 for like 50ish minutes.

Not sure if I'm overcooking or undercooking or even using the wrong potatoes (I think they are big russets, the kind you think of when you think of Idaho).

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Passenger planes are being converted to cargo planes at record levels to make up for disrupted ocean freight — but even as it solves one problem, it's feeding into another

Air cargo demand rose 6.9% in 2021 over 2019 amid a shipping crisis.

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• Demand for air cargo rose 6.9% in 2021 compared to 2019, the International Air Transport Association estimates.
• Disruptions in ocean shipping is likely to keep demand for air freight up, analysts said.
• The trend is spurring airlines to convert a record number of passenger planes into freighters.

Nearly 90% of the world's goods are transported via ocean freighters, but the industry has been in a state of crisis for two years. On top of being disrupted by the pandemic, shipping now faces even more complications because of the war in Ukraine.

In the midst of the shipping industry's issues, demand for air cargo is rising. Volumes transported by air cargo rose 6.9% in 2021 compared to 2019, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The group skipped data for 2020 due to pandemic distortion.

Now, airlines are lining up to convert old passenger planes into freighters.

Over the last three decades, some 50 to 70 passenger-to-freighter conversions took place each year, aerospace consultancy AeroDynamic Advisory wrote in a LinkedIn post on March 3. Today, demand is skyrocketing: AeroDynamic said it expects conversions to more than double to 180 a year by 2025.

"Trade via air cargo continues to be something that is growing because of the growth of e-commerce and also because shipping is also not very efficient these days, causing some delays," Shukor Yusof, founder of aviation consulting firm Endau Analytics, told Insider.

But it's not a perfect solution: The cost of transporting goods via air cargo is significantly higher than by shipping — and the consumer may well be the one paying the difference. 

The rise of air freight could feed into inflation

The shipping industry crisis has been fed by a global labor crunch and operational issues tied to vaccine recognition, border controls, and quarantine requirements amid the pandemic.

The war in Ukraine is likely to further complicate the crisis, as about 15% of seafarers are Russian or Ukrainian, per the International Chamber of Shipping. Sanctions against Russia could make it difficult to pay staff, and it could become more difficult to recruit Ukrainian seafarers because country has banned all male citizens from the ages of 18 to 60 from leaving the country.

Bottlenecks in ocean shipping has boosted air freight.

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Air freight has become an appealing alternative — particularly for smaller, expensive items like semiconductor chips, and perishables like food.

"Air cargo volumes have been rising as the global economy recovers from the pandemic, as bottle necks in the supply chain persist," said Nirgunan Tiruchelvam, head of consumer sector equity research at Tellimer, a London-based research house.

While about 2% to 3% of the world's trade by volume is transported via planes, it represents 35% of global trade value, according to law firm Reed Smith.

By contrast, around 90% of the world's traded goods are carried via ocean freight, which is four to six times cheaper than air freight. As energy inflation heats up, jet fuel prices — alongside oil — also hit 14-year highs earlier this month. The increased cost in air transportation will feed into inflation, said Tiruchelvam.

And that's where the trouble for the consumer comes in.

As companies look to recover from the hit their earnings took during the pandemic, it's likely companies "will pass the cost to end users," Tiruchelvam told Insider.

Both Yusof and Tiruchelvam said perishable foods, like fresh produce, are among the products that could be air-flown more due to supply chain disruptions.

Airlines' shift to more cargo services may be here to stay

Cargo now accounts for about 30% of the revenue for a typical airline business. That's up from 10% to 15% before  the pandemic, according to an IATA report released in May. But cargo capacity last year was "constrained" at about 10% lower than in 2019, IATA said in January.

That, Yusof said, is in part because cargo capacity in passenger planes has been slashed in the pandemic as travel has plunged.

To cater to the demand, airlines have been acquiring new cargo planes — but it's more cost-effective to convert an old passenger plane to a freighter. A new freighter can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but acquiring and converting an old passenger plane costs tens of millions of dollars, Insider's Thomas Pallini reported last February.

Some old passenger planes are getting converted to freighters as demand for air cargo booms.

Israel Aerospace Industries

Demand used to come from dedicated cargo companies like DHL and FedEx, but passenger airlines are also entering the space, Yusof said. Last week, Alaska Airlines — the fifth-largest airline in the US — announced it was converting two of its midlife narrow body Boeing 737-800 into cargo planes. The carrier said it has already converted three smaller Boeing 737-700s dedicated to cargo.

One company that's seen a big boost for its conversion services is Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). Before the pandemic, it converted about 18 aircraft a year. Last year, it converted 25 aircraft.

"As our society has become more accustomed to ecommerce, we expect to see a continuous upward trend in the need for cargo planes and for the most cost-effective solution — cargo plane conversions," an IAI spokesperson told Insider.

The shift toward more cargo services could be permanent for passenger airlines as business travel may not return to pre-pandemic levels, said Yusof.

"There will be increasing demand for a lot of aircraft to be converted into cargo," he told Insider. "I don't think we'll go back to where we were pre-Covid. The aviation landscape has changed."

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The US is considering releasing 1 million barrels of oil a day from reserves to battle inflation: Bloomberg

The administration of US President Joe Biden

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• The US is considering a plan to release 1 million barrels of oil a day, Bloomberg reported.
• The plan looks to fight inflation, which has hit a 40-year high in the US.
• Oil prices have hit 14-year highs on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The US is considering a plan to release about 1 million barrels of oil a day from its reserves over several months to battle inflation, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

President Joe Biden's administration may release as many as 180 million barrels of oil in total, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. An official announcement may come as soon as Thursday.

The US is also calling on the International Energy Agency to coordinate a release of oil reserves in other countries, Bloomberg added. 

Oil futures fell on the back of the news with international benchmark Brent and US benchmark West Texas Intermediate both down about 4% at 9:17 p.m. EDT.

The news came as US inflation rose 7.9% on-year in February — the fastest pace since January 1982. Globally, oil prices have hit 14-year highs.

The US consumes about 20 million barrels of petroleum a day, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Petroleum products include gasoline, diesel fuel, and jet fuel.

Oil prices have been rising since 2021. Growth in demand has been outstripping production growth amid easing pandemic restrictions and an improving global economy, the US Energy Information Administration wrote in a January report.

The war in Ukraine spurred further gains in the price of oil as the US and the UK have banned Russian imports, but neither country is a large buyer of Russian energy products. The European Union, which relies on Russia for 40% of its natural gas and about 30% of its oil, is considering a ban as well.

Russia is the world's third-largest oil producer and accounts for roughly 10% of global supply, according to the International Energy Agency.

The White House did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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Global Discarded Wind Turbine Blades to Arrive at 2 Million Tons by 2050. Will Pyrolysis be the Solution?

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Can you salt pasta water with garlic salt?

Google didn't help me, it kept thinking I meant add it to the starchy water to make a sauce.

Will adding garlic salt to boiling water before adding the pasta change the flavor of the pasta at all? Or is the garlic in the garlic salt not able to dissolve enough to be absorbed by the pasta?

Thank you for reading!

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Rational oven

What is the cost of the rational stand alone ovens? I know there aren’t cheap but need a ballpark figure. Is it possible to buy one used?

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Guacamole could get more expensive as the price of Mexican avocados surges to a record high

Mexican avocado prices are soaring.

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• Avocado prices from the Mexican state of Michoacán have jumped 81% this year to $38 for a 20-pound box.
• The US banned the import of Mexican avocados for a week in February after a USDA inspector was threatened.
• The rise in avocado prices stands to make guacamole more expensive amid concerns of food inflation.

Avocado prices have surged to a record high due to tighter supply from major producer Mexico.

Avocado prices from the major producing state of Michoacán are up 81% this year to 760 pesos ($38) for a 20-pound box — the highest on record in data that goes back to 1998, Bloomberg reported, citing Mexican government statistics.

Mexico's avocado production is expected to be 8% lower than it was over the previous year, the US Department of Agriculture said in an October report.

The fruit's price gain follows a one-week import ban of Mexican avocados by the US in February, after an American plant-safety inspector received a threatening phone call. The ban was lifted after a week.

The rise in avocado prices comes amid concerns about food inflation, which has been exacerbated due to supply chain challenges. US food prices edged 1% higher on-month and 7.9% on-year in February, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Mission Produce — the largest US distributor of avocados — raised its selling prices by 50% recently "due to lower industry supply out of Mexico, as well as inflationary pressures," it said in its first-quarter results announcement on March 10.

Mexico exported almost $3 billion worth of avocados in 2020, the most recent year for which data is available, according to Statista. The data provider indicated that about 80% of Mexico's avocado shipments went to the US in 2020.

For now, the US exclusively imports its avocados from Michoacán, but the state of Jalisco has also been approved to supply the fruit by June, according to Avocados from Mexico, a marketing group that's a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mexican Hass Avocado Importers Association.

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Ron DeSantis says Disney 'crossed the line' when it called for the 'Don't Say Gay' bill to be repealed

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education bill into law on Monday.

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• Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Disney on Tuesday for the company's stance on the state's 'Don't Say Gay' bill.
• Disney had earlier said it would work to repeal the controversial bill, noting that it "should never have passed."
• DeSantis signed the bill into law on Monday amid a national backlash.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Tuesday that the Walt Disney Company "crossed the line" when it declared it would push to repeal a sexual identity and gender education bill that critics have dubbed "Don't Say Gay."

"For Disney to come out and put a statement and say that the bill should have never passed and that they are going to actively work to repeal it, I think, one, was fundamentally dishonest but, two, I think that crossed the line," DeSantis said at a press conference.

"This state is governed by the interests of the people of the state of Florida. It is not based on the demands of California corporate executives," he continued.

"They do not run this state. They do not control this state," DeSantis added.

The legislation, officially named the Parental Rights in Education bill, will limit teachers' instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for classes from kindergarten to the third grade. It is set to take effect on July 1. 

On Tuesday, DeSantis also noted that Florida House Speaker Chris Sprowls did not receive any calls from Disney while the bill was being put through the House.

"They didn't seem to have a problem with it when it was going through. If this was such an affront, why aren't they speaking up at the outset?" he said.

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DeSantis had signed the bill into Florida law on Monday, amid a national backlash and after President Joe Biden had called it "hateful." 

At the signing ceremony, DeSantis said the US has seen "a nationwide trend to cut parents out of their children's education."

In response, Disney issued a statement saying the bill "should never have passed and should never have been signed into law."

"Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that," Disney's statement read.

"We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country," the statement continued.

Disney's flagship amusement park — The Walt Disney World Resort — employs some 77,000 people in Florida, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Earlier this month, Disney's CEO Bob Chapek apologized for the company's initial lack of response to the bill and vowed to halt all political donations in the state.

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Trump urges Putin to come forward with information on Hunter Biden in new interview

President Donald J. Trump uses his cellphone at the White House on Thursday, June 18, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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• Trump told a conservative journalist that he's urging Putin to release information on Hunter Biden.
• Trump was discussing a GOP-led investigation ahead of the 2020 election into the Bidens that produced very few new findings.
• Trump has previously called on Russia to dig up information on his political opponents. 

Former President Donald Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to share information and documents surrounding Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son.

Trump's comments were made during an interview released Tuesday with far-right journalist John Solomon on Real America's Voice network, which took place at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club.

The former president was discussing a GOP-led investigation ahead of the 2020 election into the Bidens by Senate Republicans that produced very few new findings.

The report alleged that in 2014 a firm tied to Hunter Biden received $3.5 million from a Russian businesswoman and the wife of the late mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov.

"She gave him $3.5 million so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that," Trump said in the interview. "I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer."

Hunter Biden's attorney, George Mesires, has denied the claim. A CNN fact check of the claim has resolved that it "needs context," saying that no evidence of wrongdoing on Biden's part has been provided.

Hunter Biden's attorney did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Hunter Biden has been an ongoing subject of controversy. He remains under investigation by the Justice Department, which is scrutinizing his taxes and his foreign business dealings during his father's tenure as vice president, according to The New York Times.

He has also been a subject of interest for Trump, who was impeached in 2019 and charged with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress after he tried to strong-arm Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into investigating Hunter Biden's role on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, while withholding congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine, which was fighting Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region at the time.

The GOP-controlled Senate later voted to acquit Trump.

Trump has also previously — and publicly — called for Russia to release information about political rivals.

During the presidential election in July 2016, then-candidate Trump called on Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton's emails during a press conference.

"Russia, if you're listening — I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," he said. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let's see if that happens."

Trump later claimed that the comment was made in jest.

The former president has recently faced scrutiny after he called Putin a "genius" and "savvy" during the days before Russia's February 24 invasion of Ukraine, which is now in its 35th day. Following the invasion, Trump walked backed the comments and condemned Russia.

The White House and former President Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. 

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Russia's troop withdrawal near Kyiv is likely just a rotation of individual units and a ploy to 'mislead': Ukraine's military

Ukrainian volunteer fighters use an armored vehicle for cover while searching for Russian soldiers in Lukâyanivka, a battlefield east of Kyiv, on Tuesday.

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• Russia appears to be withdrawing its troops near Kyiv, although Ukraine said it might just be rotating its units.
• Ukraine's military said on Tuesday that the scaleback is also likely a ploy to throw off Kyiv's defenders.
• The White House and Pentagon have also expressed doubt about Russia's withdrawal claims.

Ukraine's military has warned that the apparent withdrawal of Russian forces from the northern cities of Kyiv and Chernihiv is likely just a rotation of troops that "aims to mislead" Ukrainian forces.

"According to some indications, the Russian enemy is regrouping units to focus its main efforts on the East," said the general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces in a Facebook post on Tuesday evening.

"At the same time, the so-called 'withdrawal of troops' is probably a rotation of individual units and aims to mislead the military leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and create a misconception about the occupiers' refusal to plan to encircle the city of Kyiv," the post continued.

Moscow declared on Tuesday that it would "drastically reduce" its assaults near Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, and Chernihiv, the country's northernmost city.

Earlier in the day, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said his country's military pullback aimed to "increase mutual trust and create the necessary conditions for further negotiations and achieving the ultimate goal of agreeing on the signing of the above [peace] agreement."

Fomin made the announcement following the fourth round of ceasefire talks held between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul, Turkey, on the same day.

The Pentagon has also expressed doubt toward Russia's withdrawal claims and called the troop movements a "repositioning" instead.

"We're seeing a small number now that appears to be moving away from Kyiv, this on the same day that the Russians say they're withdrawing," said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, per Agence France-Presse.

"But we're not prepared to call this a retreat or even a withdrawal," he said. "We think that what they probably have in mind is a repositioning to prioritize elsewhere."

"We all should be prepared to watch for a major offensive against other areas of Ukraine. It does not mean that the threat to Kyiv is over," Kirby added, per the outlet.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden told reporters on Tuesday: "We'll see. I don't read anything into it until I see what their actions are. We'll see if they follow through on what they're suggesting."

A similar sentiment was expressed by White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, who said that "no one should be fooled by Russia's announcements."

It has been 34 days since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to the United Nation's latest tally, at least 1,179 Ukrainian civilians have been killed in the war, while 1,860 have been injured. However, the UN noted that the actual casualty figures are likely far higher.

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