Ukraine
Just been listening to the UN Secretary General on the radio, he has announced that Putin has order vehicles into combat with East Ukraine but has told them to put their fire arms down and go home.
How sad this is.
Footage shows smoke supposedly rising on the skyline after the blasts were heard near Mariupol, eastern Ukraine
Explosions have been heard in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, as fears mount that shelling is underway. Residents in the city, which is located in south eastern Ukraine, have been woken up at 3.30am this morning by blasts 30 miles from the Russian border. Video footage showed clouds of smoke rising up into the night sky in Mariupol, but it was unconfirmed whether it was as a result of shelling. The explosions come just hours after the U.S. warned the Ukrainian government that Putin's troops are 'ready to go now' with an invasion of Ukraine, with 80 per cent of Russian soldiers now assembled around the country in attack positions.
Explosions heard in Kiev after Putin says invasion is underway | Daily Mail Online
+53View gallery Putin has recognised two areas in eastern Ukraine as independent and authorised Russian troops to go in on 'peacekeeping' missions. Rebels already hold part of that territory (in red) but Putin has recognised a much-wider region (yellow) amid fears he will now try to seize it. There are also fears he is preparing to attack Kharkiv in Ukraine (green) after massing forces nearby
+53View gallery Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed that the Ukrainian people will 'fight back' if Vladimir Putin threatens their freedom and lives by launching a full-scale invasion
Heartbreaking images from Ukraine have emerged showing bloodied civilians (pictured in Chuhuiv, eastern Ukraine) staggering through the streets despite Russian President Vladimir Putin claiming he declared war to 'protect civilians' after ordering an all out invasion this morning
Russia today launched simultaneous attacks from the south, east and north, by land and by air, killing at l east 40 civilians by midday including a young boy in an apartment block in Chuhuiv in Kharkiv, Ukrainian authorities said
[as they stated Putin believes the Russian people should work for the Soviet he was happy in 1975 and he wants that era back again, he is happy to be eating Chicken necks and sausage as he did as a child and he thinks everyone else will love it to.
But one has to ask why did he make so many friends so wealthy, or perhaps it is not they that are wealthy but the state?]
President Joe Biden on Thursday warned Vladimir Putin that U.S. forces will defend NATO territory if he broadens his assault beyond Ukraine, and said he was ordering more troops to Europe.
The account by Macron's aides contrasted with that given by the Kremlin, which said only that the two leaders had a 'serious and frank exchange of views' about Ukraine.
NEW Former president Barack Obama - who held office when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 - is condemning the Vladimir Putin-ordered invasion of Ukraine, calling it a 'brazen attack on the people'
Putin's declaration of Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk regions to be independent invoked comparisons to Hitler's actions in the Sudetenland shortly before World War II broke out.
I wonder who he is going to get to play Putin?
Hollywood to the rescue: SEAN PENN sits in front row of Ukrainian press briefing after flying to Kyiv to film war documentary for VICE
Drama-chasing Penn - who found himself in the cartel's firing line in 2016 after getting in touch with fugitive drug lord El Chapo - sat with his sunglasses on for the press briefing at the Ukrainian government offices. Penn has been filming a documentary about escalating tensions in the region for months. He flew back to Kyiv earlier this week, before Putin invaded the country, but does not appear to be in any rush to leave. In a translated Facebook post, the Ukrainian government said it was grateful for him being there. He was lauded as being more courageous than Western leaders.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted a wave of sanctions as global leaders seek to ramp up pressure on the Kremlin and punish 'blood-stained aggressor' Vladimir Putin, in the words of Boris Johnson. The United States, Britain, Japan, Canada, Australia and the European Union have unveiled more sanctions on Moscow on top of penalties earlier this week, including a move by Germany to halt a gas pipeline from Russia. In the UK, the Prime Minister announced the 'largest and most severe' package of sanctions Russia has ever faced including measures to hit five further oligarchs, including the Russian president's former son-in-law. Britain will also target more than 100 businesses and individuals, and Mr Johnson said he was sanctioni
Explosions rock Kiev after Putin says invasion is under way: Russian leader tells Ukraine to surrender in late-night TV address after Zelensky vowed to fight
Residents in the city, which is located in south eastern Ukraine, have been woken up at 3.30am this morning by blasts 30 miles from the Russian border. Video footage showed clouds of smoke rising up into the night sky in Mariupol, but it was unconfirmed whether it was as a result of shelling. The explosions come just hours after the U.S. warned the Ukrainian government that Putin's troops are 'ready to go now' with an invasion of Ukraine, with 80 per cent of Russian soldiers now assembled around the country in attack positions. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken issued a further stark warning and said he believed Russia will invade before the night is over.