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🔴 NEW: Boris Johnson warns that Russia is planning the biggest war in Europe since 1945

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🔴Russian invasion 'of Ukraine very highly likely', says James Cleverly

🔴Dmitry Polyanskiy, the first deputy permanent representative of Russia to the United Nations, has accused the West of "warmongering" by creating an "artificial crisis" in Ukraine

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🔴Boris Johnson has said that Vladimir Putin might not be thinking logically so the threat of sanctions may not be enough to deter a Russian invasion of Ukraine

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🔴President Joe Biden said invasion coming in days as a result of 'specific intelligence'

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🔴Britain has an issue with Russian money funnelling through the City of London and it must be dealt with, Boris Johnson said today

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🔴Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian President, has called on Vladimir Putin to meet him for talks amid warnings of a Russian invasion

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🔴Presidents Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron are currently speaking on the phone, in a last-ditch effort to avoid an escalation, according to the Elysee Palace

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🔴Hundreds of artillery shells have exploded along the contact line between Ukrainian soldiers and Russia-backed separatists, and thousands of people evacuated eastern Ukraine, further increasing fears that the volatile region could see a Russian invasion
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🔴Kamala Harris has told the Munich security conference that she believes "Putin has made his decision"

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🔴 The United States and Britain would cut off Russian companies' access to U.S. dollars and British pounds if the Kremlin orders an invasion of Ukraine, Boris Johnson said today

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🔴Liz Truss has warned that Vladimir Putin "will not stop at Ukraine" as she argued he is looking to piece the Soviet Union back together

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🔴Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's Foreign Minister , said today that that it was time for the West to implement at least part of the sanctions it has prepared against Russia

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🔴 NEW: West urged to impose sanctions now as Russian invasion threat escalates

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🔴 The US and its Nato allies have repeatedly warned that Russia will pay a high price for any invasion - but they have sometimes struggled to present a united front

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🔴 Volodymyr Zelensky has called for an immediate ceasefire in the eastern part of the country, where clashes between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces intensified in recent days

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🔴The Netherlands Foreign Ministry has said today that it will move its embassy functions in Ukraine from Kyiv to Lviv temporarily due to safety considerations

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The president of the European Council has said "the big question remains: does the Kremlin want dialogue?"

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🔴 Antony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State, has said the current situation indicates that Russia is on the brink of invading Ukraine

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🔴 NEW: Ukraine-Russia crisis: Diplomacy will continue 'until tanks start rolling', says US

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🔴 Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin agreed on the need to find a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis in a phone call today, the Elysee palace said
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🔴 The West should start implementing sanctions against Russia now as fears over an imminent invasion mount, Ukraine's foreign minister has said.

"There are all the grounds to implement at least a part of sanctions prepared against Russia", said Dmytro Kuleba

🔴 Russia has surrounded Ukraine on three sides - in Crimea to the south, along the Russian border to the east, and in Belarus to the north - giving it various options for attack

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🔴 Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin disagreed in their phone call today over who was responsible for tensions in eastern Ukraine, a French presidential adviser said.

He added the two agreed that a three-way meeting of OSCE, Ukraine, and Russia representatives be held on Monday

🔴Lloyd Austin, the U.S. Defence Secretary, warned about "enormous casualties" if Russia were to deploy the tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery and rocket forces it has massed on the Ukraine border
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🔴 NEW: Vladimir Putin agrees to try to secure a ceasefire in Ukraine in last-ditch talks with Emmanuel Macron
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🔴 US has defended its decision to wait on Russia sanctions despite Zelensky plea.

The Biden administration refused to unleash sanctions on Russia, despite mounting criticism from Kyiv and domestic rivals
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📈 The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is causing food prices to fluctuate, and risks pushing families across the Middle East and North Africa into severe hunger
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