FACT CHECK · YOM KIPPUR WAR
Claim: Did the Soviet Union get involved in 1973?
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
No Soviet troops fought, but Moscow airlifted arms to Egypt and Syria during the war, and on 24 Oct Brezhnev threatened to send forces alone. The US went to DEFCON 3; the ceasefire then held.
SOURCE
Britannica 'Yom Kippur War'; US State Dept Office of the Historian
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