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11:01 AM ET, February 24, 2022

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Washington Post:
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia launches attacks across Ukraine; Biden vows ‘consequences’  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared martial law as explosions were heard throughout the country and Russian forces targeted the capital.
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The White House:
Statement by President Biden on Russia's Unprovoked and Unjustified Attack on Ukraine  —  The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces.  President Putin has chosen a premeditated war …
Wall Street Journal:
Russia Attacks Ukraine, Drawing Broad Condemnation  —  Missiles and airstrikes hit Kyiv and several other cities in Ukraine, in what President Biden calls an unprovoked attack, pledging further action against Moscow  —  KYIV, Ukraine—Russian armored columns pushed into Ukraine and airstrikes hit …
Associated Press:
The Latest: UN chief warns Russian actions could devastate  —  The latest on the Russia-Ukraine crisis:  —  ___  —  UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Russia's attack on Ukraine — as he appealed for President Vladimir Putin to stop his troops — was “the saddest moment” of his five-year tenure.
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Trump thought US troops are fighting Russians in Ukraine.  Really.  —  The former president's immediate Fox News reaction to Russia's invasion was totally bonkers — and totally sympathetic to Putin.  —  On Thursday morning in Ukraine — Wednesday evening here in the US …
Telegraph:
Russia deploys mobile crematoriums to follow its troops into battle  —  Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary, suggests the vehicle-mounted incinerators will be used to hide evidence of battlefield casualties  —  Russian forces have prepared a mobile crematorium for use in any future conflict …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Politico:
Battles flare across Ukraine after Putin declares war  —  KYIV — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday launched an all-out assault on Ukraine with missiles, warplanes and tanks that threatens to push Europe into its biggest conflict since World War II.
Ann Coulter:
Stop Talking About Ukraine, Republicans!  —  Amid the media's 24/7 UKRAINE UPDATES, perhaps some enterprising journalist could write an article explaining how our esteem for that country's borders benefits a single American — other than President Joe Biden.
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on Phone Call with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine  —  President Zelenskyy reached out to me tonight and we just finished speaking.  I condemned this unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces.  I briefed him on the steps we are taking …
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Trump and his supporters praise Putin and dismiss Biden as crisis unfolds
Michael Wines / New York Times:
North Carolina Court Imposes New District Map, Eliminating G.O.P. Edge
Discussion: VICE and Political Wire
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Foreign-Policy Dissent Is Not Treason
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Putin's war will shake the world  —  Russia intends to install a puppet government in Kyiv.  The west must now respond  —  ADD TO MYFT  —  The phoney war is over.  The real war has begun.  For several weeks, the US and British governments have believed that Vladimir Putin was intent on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Discussion: New York Times, Bloomberg and Insider
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Wall Street Journal:
How Ukraine Was Betrayed in Budapest  —  Kyiv gave up its nuclear weapons in return for security assurances.  So much for that.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  As the people of Ukraine steel themselves for a Russian attack, it's worth recalling how the U.S. persuaded the country to give up its nuclear weapons.
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Calamity Again … The poem is called “Calamity Again.”  The original version was written in Ukrainian, in 1859, and the author, Taras Shevchenko, was not speaking metaphorically when he wrote about slavery.  Shevchenko was born into a family of serfs—slaves—on an estate in what is now central Ukraine …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A deadly, devious intelligence war unfolds in Ukraine
Discussion: Washington Post
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
A far-right website created 36 days ago is more popular on Facebook than the Washington Post  —  Brandon Gill “provides strategic marketing direction for Conservative Brief,” the right-wing website whose underhanded tactics were exposed in yesterday's Popular Information.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
A Loss of Prosecutors Isn't Necessarily a Win for Trump  —  Every investigation of Donald Trump, during and after his presidency, has been freighted with emotion and politics, from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe and two impeachments to ongoing civil and criminal actions in multiple jurisdictions.
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Jo Yurcaba / NBC News:
Texas governor calls on citizens to report parents of transgender kids for abuse  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is calling on “licensed professionals” and “members of the general public” to report the parents of transgender minors to state authorities if it appears the minors are receiving gender-affirming medical care.
Samuel Benson / Politico:
Hard pivot toward Trump proves costly for red-state ally  —  Like many GOP primaries this year, the challenge to Sen. Mike Lee in Utah turns on the question of fealty to Donald Trump.  Unlike in most of those primaries, however, the issue isn't whether he's loyal enough.  It's whether he's gone too far.
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
 
 
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