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    Putin says he is proceeding with military operation in Ukraine; explosions reported

    by Eli Stokols, Nabih Bulos and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Feb 23, 2022 5 minutes
    View of the Pipeline Inspection Gauge receiving station, the Nord Stream 2 part of the landfall area in Lubmin on Germanys Baltic Sea coast, taken on Sept. 21, 2021.

    SHCHASTIA, Ukraine — Moments after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced late Wednesday that he would proceed with a military operation in Ukraine, several loud explosions were heard outside Kyiv.

    The explosions, reported by CNN, came after Putin said in a televised address that he was conducting a military operation to protect civilians in response to threats coming from Ukraine, according to The Associated Press.

    Putin warned other countries to stay out of the conflict or risk “consequences they have never seen.”

    The developments came even as the U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting to calm the situation.

    Earlier Wednesday the Biden administration stiffened economic sanctions targeting Moscow, and the Ukrainian president made a televised appeal for peace in a dramatic last-minute effort to avert war in Eastern Europe.

    “The people of Ukraine and the government of Ukraine want peace,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

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