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Feb 24 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “President Putin, stop your troops from attacking Ukraine. Give peace a chance.”

Emergency UNSC session ongoing: media.un.org/en/webtv/
@USAmbUN: "We are here tonight because we believe along with Ukraine that a full-scale further invasion into Ukraine by RUssia is imminent."

"Tonight we're seeing the Russians close airspace, move troops into Donbass and move forces into combat-ready positions"
.@USAmbUN: "This is a perilous moment and we're here for one reason, and one reason only: to ask Russia to stop. Return to your borders. Send your troops and your tanks and your planes back to their barracks and hangars and send your diplomats to the negotiating table."
Speaking just now, Russia's UN Ambassador says Russia will "demilitarize and degenocide (ph)" Ukraine and also "hold accountable" those who carried out "crimes against...citizens of the Russian Federation."

Then:"...I give the floor to the representative of Ukraine"
Ukraine at UNSC: "When I was coming here an hour ago I was intending to ask the Russian Ambassador to confirm...that the Russian troops will not start firing at Ukrainians today... it became useless...because about 48 minutes ago your president declared war on Ukraine"
.@USAmbUN: "At the exact time as we are gathered in the Council seeking peace, Putin delivered a message of war, in a total disdain for the responsibility of this Council. This is a grave emergency. The Council will need to act and we will put a resolution on the table tomorrow."
Ukraine's Ambassador to Russia's Ambassador at UN Security Council: "There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell, Ambassador."
Russia's Ambassador at UNSC: "I just wanted to say in conclusion that we aren't being aggressive against the Ukrainian people, but against the junta that is in power in Kyiv.

There are no more speakers on the list; this meeting is adjourned."

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Feb 24
Ukrainian ambassador @OMarkarova briefed reporters at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington, DC.

“Make no mistake, it's not a military operation - or whatever it was called yesterday - in Donetsk or Lugansk. It’s a war against Ukraine,” she said. Image
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“Today, we have held consultations under Article 4 of the Washington Treaty. We have decided, in line with our defensive planning to protect all Allies, to take additional steps to further strengthen deterrence and defence across the Alliance.”
Stoltenberg this AM: "Peace in our continent has been shattered. We now have war in Europe, on a scale and of a type we thought belong to history," he said.
Stoltenberg said Russia's attack involved air and missile attacks, ground forces and special forces from multiple directions, and targeted military infrastructure and major urban centers.

"This is a deliberate, cold-blooded and long-planned invasion," he said.
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Jan 18
Secretary of State Blinken will meet in Geneva on Friday with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov following Blinken's travel to Kyiv & Berlin. The Lavrov meeting resulted from their call this morning and "suggests that perhaps diplomacy is not dead,” a Sr State Dept official said
"The United States does not want conflict. We want peace. President Putin has it in his power to take steps to de-escalate this crisis so the United States and Russia can pursue a relationship that is not based on hostility or crisis," the official said
However - the U.S. remains "concerned across several dimensions about Russia creating a pretext for a possible invasion," including via Belarus, the official said. Its movement of forces there is "neither an exercise nor normal troop movement."
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Jan 18
CIA Director William Burns traveled last week to Kyiv, where he met with intelligence officials and spoke with President Zelenskyy. Burns is a career diplomat who spent more than three decades at the State Department, including as U.S. ambassador to Russia.
In November, Burns - at President Biden's request - led a U.S. delegation to meet with Russian leadership in Moscow and, while there, conveyed during a phone call with President Putin U.S. concerns about Russia's military buildup at Ukraine's border.
A U.S. official said of Burns' travel: "Last Wednesday, Director Burns visited Kyiv on a previously scheduled trip, where he consulted with intelligence counterparts amid concerns of a further invasion of Ukraine by Russia." (1/2)
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"We don’t know that Putin has made up his mind to use force but what we do know is that he’s putting the Russian military…in a place where they could act in a pretty sweeping way," CIA Director Bill Burns says at #WSJCEOCouncil
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For Putin to act militarily is not "a foregone conclusion at all," Burns says. "That's why it's so important to respond to that with a pretty strong mix of deterrence as well as the possibility of diplomacy."
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Issued by @SenatorShaheen, @SenatorRisch, @SenatorMenendez and 8 others on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the letter to Blinken comes amid growing criticism by victims and other observers that the State Department's handling of the incidents has lacked focus and urgency.
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