Ukraine-Russia updates: 19 February ⤵️

Russia's President Putin says he will oversee major military drills along Ukraine’s borders today, while Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy is headed to Europe to drum up support.

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Russia has rejected US allegations that it was responsible for cyberattacks on Ukrainian banking and government websites as baseless.

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Separatists in Ukraine order ‘general mobilisation’ amid shelling aje.io/kews38
Russia makes demands that it knows NATO cannot fulfill, says
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

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