What's the meaning of 'Amid the war of words'?
Amid the war of words, Russian state media reported Saturday that Ukraine had prevented a plane carrying Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin from entering its airspace after leaving Moldova.

What's the meaning of 'Amid the war of words'?

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What's the meaning of 'Amid the war of words'?
Amid the war of words, Russian state media reported Saturday that Ukraine had prevented a plane carrying Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin from entering its airspace after leaving Moldova.

What's the meaning of 'Amid the war of words'?

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"Amid the war of words," means that currently the countries are just calling each other names and are speaking badly against each other. In the most simple terms a "war of words" is a name calling battle.