Yesterday's blackouts in #Moldova are "yet another example of how Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine is destabilizing the region and adding to international crises," a State Department spokesperson told me.

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#StandWithMoldova "Russia aims to fracture the energy grid and leave millions in the region without power, water, or heat, in an attempt to reduce Ukraine’s resilience and determination during the cold winter months"

— a State Department spokesperson

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JUST IN:

Readout of President Biden’s Call with President Andrzej Duda

#RussianAggression POTUS also spoke by phone with @NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, per WH.
 
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'@ZelenskyyUa to G20:

"To liberate Ukrainian land, we will have to fight for a while longer"

"Ukraine should not be offered to conclude compromises with its conscience, sovereignty, territory, and independence."

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"Ukraine's control over all sections of our state border with Russia must be restored."

"Russia must re-affirm the territorial integrity of Ukraine"

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THIS!

UN General Assembly votes to hold Russia accountable for reparations in Ukraine

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#StandWithUkraine Russia “must bear the legal consequences of all of its internationally wrongful acts, including making reparation for the injury, including any damage, caused by such acts”, the resolution reads.

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NEW:

U.S. Sanction Russia’s Global Military Procurement Network and Kremlin-Linked Networks

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#StandWithUkraine️ Today's sanctions target 14 individuals and 28 entities, including family members of Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, as well as people that it says worked as financial facilitators in Suleiman’s network.

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U.K. says it discovered ‘sick’ Russian troll factory

“We cannot allow the Kremlin and its shady troll farms to invade our online spaces with their lies about Putin’s illegal war,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement.

#StandWithUkraine “The UK Government has alerted international partners and will continue to work closely with allies and media platforms to undermine Russian information operations.”

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Norway to close its borders and ports to Russian trucks and ships, joining sanctions imposed by the EU over the war in Ukraine...

#StandWithUkraine Norway's Arctic Svalbard archipelago, which operates under a 1920s treaty allowing expanded foreign access, will also be exempted, the country's foreign ministry said.

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'@ZelenskyyUa announces capture of Putin ally oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk in Ukraine

#StandWithUkraine Medvedchuk is widely seen as the Kremlin’s point person in Ukraine.

He has a long-standing personal relationship with Putin.

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Blinken says, U.S. has 'credible reports' that Russian forces may use variety of riot control agents, including tear gas mixed with chemical agents that would cause stronger symptoms, to incapacitate Ukrainian fighters & civilians, as part of aggressive campaign to take Mariupol. "... We shared that information with #Ukraine, as well as with other partners" Blinken says.

U.S. is 'not in a position' to confirm the latest reports of the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine.

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Putin's #Russia has lost touch with reality, acting as aggressors, blaming #Ukraine for actions committed by Russian troops, @ZelenskyyUa says.

“They have destroyed the lives of millions... They started a full-scale war and act as if we are to blame for this”

#StandWithUkraine "They seized Crimea - and we are allegedly to blame.

They destroyed normal life in Donbas - and we are allegedly to blame.

They shot down a Malaysian Boeing - and we are allegedly to blame"

@ZelenskyyUa on Russian denials...

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'@Amnesty has confirmed that a 220mm Uragan rocket dropped cluster munitions on the Sonechko nursery and kindergarten in the town of Okhtyrka in Sumy Oblast, on Feb 25, where local people were seeking safety from the fighting.

"The strike may constitute a war crime." - Amnesty “There is no possible justification for dropping cluster munitions in populated areas, let alone near a school,” @AgnesCallamard

“This attack bears all the hallmarks of Russia’s use of this inherently indiscriminate and internationally-banned weapon..."

Update: "As of this morning, we have no indication that the Russian military has taken control over any cities, and we still believe that Russia has yet to achieve air superiority," a senior U.S. defense official says. The Russian invasion of Ukraine over the last 24 hours has been observed to occur over three main axes: from the south — including an amphibious assault from the Sea of Azov; from the north central; and from the northeast, a senior defense official said.

Ukrainian service members are fighting bravely — and effectively — for their country against the massive Russian onslaught, a senior defense official said at the Pentagon today.

#StandWithUkriane The official, speaking on background, said Russian forces attacking toward the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv are going slower than they anticipated.

"They are meeting more resistance than they expected," the official said.