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President Zelenskyy announced Ukraine would break diplomatic relations with Moscow in response to Russia's invasion.

Just like fascist Germany did during the second world war.” “Ukraine is defending itself and will not give up its freedom, no matter what Moscow thinks. President Zelenskyy announced Ukraine would break diplomatic relations with Moscow in response to Russia’s invasion.

Former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine violates international law and "threatens security" in Europe and around the ...

But speaking to a conservative radio show on Tuesday hosted by Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, Trump had hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin's dismembering of independent, democratic, sovereign Ukraine as an act of "genius." We cannot tolerate the authoritarian bullying and danger that Putin poses," Bush said in his statement. In the US, President Joe Biden unveiled harsh new sanctions meant to punish Moscow for its full-scale invasion, and his predecessors joined in castigating Russia's move.

Russian troops advance within 20 miles of Ukraine capital, Pentagon says ... Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Kyiv residents to be on guard against ...

Leading up to the invasion, Russia had surrounded Ukraine on three sides, with 150,000 troops, in addition to air and naval forces. In the northeastern city of Kharkiv, less than 20 miles from the Russian border, explosions rang out in the distance and many stores appeared to be closed as people stocked up on food and gasoline, NBC News foreign correspondent Matt Bradley reported. Thursday's invasion comes eight years after Moscow annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and backed pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east, a conflict that has killed an estimated 14,000 people and remains unresolved. Surveillance video broadcast online by the Ukraine’s Border Guard Service showed tanks and armored vehicles crossing into Ukraine from Belarus, and ballistic missiles were fired from there in a southwestern direction, the government said. “We have destroyed a lot of Russian aviation and military equipment. “Unfortunately, we have many losses among our heroes, but we also have the Russian military taken hostage,” he said. The U.S. and the United Kingdom also announced sanctions against Belarus for assisting the invasion. “President Putin has reintroduced war to the European continent. “We are giving away weapons, and we will continue doing so to anyone who will ask for it in order to protect our sovereignty. In a video address, he later said warned of saboteurs entering the capital. “The Chernobyl nuclear plant is captured by the Russians,” said Anton Gerashchenko, an interior ministry adviser. Explosions and shelling were first heard across major cities in Ukraine around 5 a.m. local time Thursday, minutes after Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a pre-dawn televised speech from Moscow saying he was authorizing military action.

Russia launches an all-out invasion of Ukraine by land, air and sea despite international condemnation.

And now he and his country will bear the consequences.” In a video address later in the day, he addressed the Ukrainian people wearing a military uniform. This is a war of aggression. “This is a war of aggression. “Putin has just launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Peaceful Ukrainian cities are under strikes,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted. In a pre-dawn televised address, he threatened any country trying to interfere with “consequences you have never seen”.

That being said, there is one particular Jewish person that Putin and his regime clearly hate: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. And there's apparently ...

And as the next chapter in that complicated and often dark history commences, there is little reason to believe this time will be any different. After all, even as late as last night, Putin was suggesting that his objective in the Ukraine is to “de-Nazify” the country. As noted recently in the New York Times and elsewhere, the Jews of Ukraine have plenty of reason for concern.

Ukrainian civilians react as Russia launches a full invasion of the country by air, land and sea.

“I have a friend who is a musician and plays the piano. The mayor of Mariupol said three civilians had been killed and six others wounded amid Russia’s invasion. The only thing that changed actually is that … schools, universities and kindergartens are closed and hospitals are on high alert since the parliament introduced martial law.” “Some are making the impossible choices of whether to go to Kyiv or go to see families and to go to other cities,” she said. “The situation in Kyiv, where I am located now, is more or less stable. There is no panic, there is no critical problems right now.