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🚨The Ukrainian military says two soldiers have been killed and 12 wounded in shelling by pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine in the past 24 hours.

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🗣️The invasion of Ukraine "has begun", Sajid Javid has said this morning.

Russian tanks entered the eastern breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk last night under Vladimir Putin's orders
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🇺🇸White House officials have struggled to say whether Biden believes Russia sending "peacekeeping" forces into the separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk constitutes an "invasion."

Russian troops moving in "would not itself be a new step," they said
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❌Boris Johnson has denounced Putin's decision as "a flagrant violation of the sovereignty and integrity of the Ukraine."

A "very robust package of sanctions" would be triggered "with the first toecap of a Russian incursion or Russian invasion"
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❓What happens next?

The best case is that Putin is continuing his game of incremental screw tightening and the Russian army will halt at the current line of contact

@RolandOliphant reports👇
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🔴A Russian-backed separatist official in eastern Ukraine accused Ukrainian saboteurs of detonating a mine on a road in the breakaway region that killed three civilians
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💬Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed his country just after 2am local time: “We are not afraid. We won’t cede anything"
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➡️An ultranationalist Russian politician appeared to predict the date February 22 as the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky told Russia’s parliament on December 27 of last year: "At 4am on February 22nd you'll feel our new policy"
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🗣️Boris Johnson said Russian President Vladimir Putin has "gravely miscalculated" the situation.

"He believes that Ukraine has no real right to exist as a sovereign, independent country," the Prime Minister said
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🔴The Kremlin is weighing up whether to roll its tanks into Ukrainian government-controlled territory and broaden the conflict significantly, or tell its forces to go no further than the separatist-held areas
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❌Ukraine has demanded severe sanctions against Russia.

Western diplomats are debating whether Moscow's decision to deploy troops to rebel-held eastern Ukraine is enough to trigger massive economic punishment
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🗣️Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has brushed off the threat of sanctions, saying the West would impose them regardless of events.

He described the response to Russia's recognition of two breakaway Ukrainian regions as predictable
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🗣️"Our European, American, British colleagues will not stop and will not calm down until they have exhausted all their possibilities for the so-called ‘punishment of Russia’", said Sergei Larov.

"We know that sanctions will be imposed anyway, in any case. With or without reason"

🚨Russia has deployed squads of National Guard enforcers near Ukraine's border with Belarus in what could become an occupation force in Kyiv
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➡️The Prime Minister will deliver an address to Parliament at lunchtime when he is expected to outline the "first barrage" of sanctions against Russia

🇷🇺The Kremlin says it hopes Russia's recognition of two breakaway Ukrainian regions as independent would help restore calm and that Moscow remained open to diplomacy with the United States and other countries
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🔴German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he will halt the certification of Nord Stream 2 after Russia's incursion into eastern Ukraine.

"Given Russia's latest action" the certification "cannot go ahead" Mr Scholz said
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🔴Germany’s decision to stop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in response to Russian incursions into Ukraine was reportedly prompted by vice-chancellor and business minister Robert Habeck
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🔴Tanks have been seen in Donetsk as Putin orders troops to move in
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🔴Foreign Office increasing the support available to help Britons leave Ukraine
Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, has said: "The safety and security of British nationals in Ukraine is our top priority"
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🔴 NEW: Watch live as Boris Johnson announces sanctions after Germany halts Nord Stream 2

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🎧 Listen into our Twitter space at 1:30pm as @djknowles22 @SheridanDani @mutazamd and @FrancisDearnley as they discuss the #RussiaUkraineCrisis
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⚠️Addressing the House of Commons, Boris Johnson has warned Vladimir Putin is planning a "full-scale" invasion of Ukraine

"The deployment of these forces in sovereign Ukrainian territory amounts to a renewed invasion of that country"
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🔴Five Russian banks and three high net worth individuals to be sanctioned, Boris Johnson has announced

"It is because the stakes are so high that Putin's venture must fail," Boris Johnson said.

"It must fail and it must be seen to fail. That will require the perseverance and resolve of the entire Western alliance"
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🔴Nato has announced an "extraordinary" meeting this afternoon with Ukraine's envoy after Russia recognised two separatist regions in the east of the country as independent.

The image below shows where Nato is currently based around Ukraine👇
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🔴Russia has deployed squads of National Guard enforcers near Ukraine's border with Belarus in what could become an occupation force in Kyiv, as fears grow that Moscow intends to launch a full-scale invasion, @JamesERothwell reports
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🔴NEW: Moscow sanctions must go ‘further and faster’, Tories tell Boris Johnson

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🔴The broadcast regulator Ofcom has said it will examine complaints about RT's coverage of the Ukraine crisis "as a priority"

🔴Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said "further economic pain" would be inflicted on Russia if its aggression against Ukraine continued

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🔴Russia's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that the boundaries of two separatist Ukrainian regions that Moscow has formally recognised was a matter to be resolved in the future, the Interfax news agency reported

🔴Britain has warned of potential cyberattacks with "international consequences" after Russian President Vladimir Puitin ordered troops to two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine

🔴Hungary will deploy an unspecified number of troops near its border with Ukraine, for both security purposes and humanitarian tasks, the defence ministry said on Tuesday

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🔴Ukraine is cautiously optimistic that its allies are finally listening to Kyiv about the need to impose sanctions on Russia, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Tuesday

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🇺🇸US President Joe Biden will deliver remarks at 2pm (7pm GMT) on Tuesday to provide an update on the situation concerning Russia and Ukraine

🔴At a Nato press conference, the alliance’s secretary general said: “Moscow has moved from covert attempts to destabilise Ukraine to overt military action”

Jens Stoltenberg said that this was a “crisis created by Russia alone. We commend Ukraine for its restraint in not responding to Russia's repeated provocations”

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🔴"This is the most dangerous moment in European security for a generation," Jens Stoltenberg said.

He added that "Europe and North America continue to stand strong together in Nato, united and committed to defending and protecting each other"

"Russia has already invaded Ukraine. They invaded Ukraine back in 2014, they annexed a part of Ukraine in Crimea."

"What we see now is that a country which is already invaded is suffering further invasion," Mr Stoltenberg said

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🔴The Nato chief said that Russian troops had moved into the Donbas region but added that Russian military personnel had already been present in different covert operations for many years

🔴Russia has not stopped planning for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine since recognising the independence of separatist enclaves, Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.

"Every indication is that Russia is continuing to plan for a full-scale attack of Ukraine"

🔴At a press conference, the Russian President called on Ukraine to demilitarise.

He added that an "armed to the teeth Ukraine" which he described as "anti-Russia" was "unacceptable"

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🔴Vladimir Putin has said Russia recognises the separatists' sovereignty over all of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Russian officials have so far provided little clarity what the Russian recognition means

🔴Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for international recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, an end to Ukraine's Nato membership bid and a halt to weapons shipments there

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the Minsk peace agreement on Ukraine no longer existed and that there was nothing left to fulfil, but he blamed Kyiv instead of Moscow for killing it off

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🔴Russia's recognition of two separatist regions of Ukraine and its decision to send troops are the start of a new invasion and put the world on the verge of "a dark and dangerous era", US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Tuesday

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed to continue to work together to target those who supported Russian President Vladimir Putin's "aggressive approach", Johnson's office said

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🔴Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin said Tuesday that the country would re-evaluate the security risks for a planned nuclear power reactor to be built by Russian state-owned firm Rosatom

🔴NEW: Putin calls for 'demilitarisation' of Ukraine

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🔴Foreign Office minister James Cleverly has said that "the UK Government's actions are not limited to what the Prime Minister has currently announced"

🔴European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said that Germany is right in its Nord Stream 2 decision and that Europe needs to "diversify" its energy supply

Russia has said it will soon evacuate its diplomatic staff from Ukraine to "protect their lives", after lawmakers allowed President Vladimir Putin to use force abroad

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🔴A military convoy of more than 100 trucks with soldiers was seen heading in the direction of the Ukrainian border in Russia's Belgorod region, a witness has told Reuters

France has accused Vladimir Putin of failing to respect his country's commitments to key international accords including the 2014 Minsk agreement.

"President Putin no longer honours Russia's signature," Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said

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❌French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has said he would cancel the Paris invitation to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov for talks after Russia's recognition of breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine

🔴NEW: Putin raises fear of all-out war by claiming more Ukrainian territory

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🔴Slovakia has seen a rise in propaganda and disinformation from Russia, President Zuzana Caputova said on Tuesday

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has condemned Russia's "latest invasion" of Ukraine but said the United States is working with allies to prevent the conflict from growing

The European Union has agreed new sanctions on Russia that will:

❌Blacklist more politicians, lawmakers and officials

❌Ban EU investors from trading in Russian state bonds

❌Target imports and exports with separatist entities

🔴NEW: Vladimir Putin will go ‘much further’ with attacks on Ukraine, Joe Biden warns as he announces sanctions.

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President Biden has said he expected the Kremlin to start a war and that "none of us should be fooled".

The US President told reporters: "We still believe that Russia is poised to go much further in launching a massive military attack against Ukraine"

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🔴US President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the United States would continue to supply "defensive" weapons to Ukraine against a Russian invasion

🔴President Biden has announced that the US will impose sanctions on Russia in light of Russia announcing that it is “carving out a chunk of Ukraine”

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The US will impose full blocking sanctions on Russian institutions VEB and their military banks, and cut off Russia’s government from Western finances.

Starting tomorrow, Mr Biden says the US “will also impose sanctions on Russia’s elites and their family members”

🗣️"Nord Stream 2 will not move forward," President Biden confirmed

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🇺🇸🇺🇦US President Joe Biden met Tuesday with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to "reaffirm" support for Kyiv amid soaring tensions with Russia

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🔴In response to the incursion into two regions of Ukraine held by Russian separatists, the UK Government identified three Russian billionaires for economic sanctions.

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🔴Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday promoted a statement from the Stop The War organisation that criticised the UK Government for its "provocative role" in the Ukraine crisis

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