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President Vladimir Putin is regularly briefed on the situation in Iraq

March 20, 2003

On the evening of March 19, US and British forces launched a military operation against Iraq. During the first hours of the armed conflict, the US Air Force and the Royal Air Force conducted several air strikes against Baghdad and a number of populated locations in southern Iraq and also hit some elements of the national air-defence system.

March 20, 2003