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Putin Declares Military Operation in Ukraine
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Russian President Vladimir Putin essentially declared war on Ukraine Wednesday night. “Russia cannot feel secure,” Putin said of Ukraine. “We have no other choice but to use the means we are about to announce.”
“I have declared a special military operation,” Putin added.
He also addressed the Ukrainian military directly, calling on the force to “lay down its arms.” The operation will be aimed at ‘defending people living in the newly-recognized republics of Donetsk and Lugansk,’ state-run Russian media outlet RT reported. 
However, there were reports of explosions in major cities throughout Ukraine. For example here behind a CNN reporter on a rooftop in Kyiv
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Russian forces seized the Chernobyl nuclear plant on Thursday, site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986, triggering fears of contamination. Ukrainian troops defended a strategic airport outside of the capital, Kyiv. Images and videos of fighter jets engaging over suburban skies filled social media Thursday. US officials estimated that Russia may have launched as many as 160 missiles into Ukrainian military bases and airports. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cut diplomatic ties with Moscow and declared martial law on Thursday.
 
According to the LA Times, In a televised address Thursday, Biden imposed new sanctions on Russia and condemned Putin’s attack.
“Putin is the aggressor,” Biden said. “Putin chose this war, and now he and his country will bear the consequences.”
Under the latest sanctions the U.S. and its allies will block the assets of four large Russian banks, impose export controls and sanction oligarchs. Biden also said the U.S. will deploy added forces to Germany to support NATO.
Ukrainian officials responded to Biden’s address by calling for more drastic action, including cutting Russians off from the SWIFT
financial system.
“We demand the disconnection of Russia from SWIFT, the introduction of a no-fly zone over Ukraine and other effective steps to stop the aggressor,” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a tweet.
The Biden administration has repeatedly said U.S. troops will not fight in Ukraine or rescue Americans trapped there, but Russia’s invasion is shaping up to be the biggest land war in Europe since World War II. 
On Thursday, the Pentagon said it was sending an additional 7,000 troops to Europe, deploying an armored brigade combat team to Germany to reassure NATO allies. The deployment brings the number of U.S. troops ordered to Europe since the Ukraine crisis began to 14,000; the number of American troops in Europe to 100,000.
 
As Mr. Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Security Council met to discuss the crisis, with diplomats agreeing to vote on a resolution against Russia, though little is expected to come of it: Russia holds a veto as a permanent member.
What does Putin want? “Ukraine is not just a neighboring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space,” Putin said in a televised speech Monday.
Ukraine is a former Soviet Union republic perched at the edge of Europe. It became independent after the Communist government collapsed in 1991. Ukraine is the largest, most fertile, mineral-rich and strategically important. A Russia