Russia Prepared for War

Ru ssian armored vehicles are loaded onto railway platforms at a railway station in region not far from the Russia-Ukraine border, in the Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Feb. 23, 2022. Tensions mounted two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed the eastern Ukraine regions of Luhansk and Donetsk were independent states and sent what he characterized

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UN Security Council Meets over Russian Aggression

The U.N. Security Council meets after Russia recognized two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent states, in New York City, Feb. 21, 2022. The U.N. Security Council met in an emergency late night session Monday after Russia’s president signed a declaration recognizing two breakaway regions of Ukraine as independent states. “The internationally-recognized borders of

Putin putting the World on Alert

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke during a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, where it was decided that Russia would recognize the Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine as independent states, a pronouncement that adds to Western fears that Putin is imminently set to invade