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12:25 PM 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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
NBC News:
Russia-Ukraine conflict live updates: Ukraine battles Russian attack on multiple fronts  —  Watch live: Russia launches attack on Ukraine  —  Russia launched what Ukraine said was a “full-scale attack” against its neighbor Thursday, with cities bombarded from the air and forces fighting on the ground.
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on Phone Call with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine
Reuters:
Russia invades Ukraine in Europe's ‘darkest hours’ since WWII
Joe Tidy / BBC:
Cyber-attacks bring down many Ukraine websites
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: Politico, New York Times and Bloomberg
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Wall Street Journal:
How Ukraine Was Betrayed in Budapest
Discussion: The Atlantic and Tablet Magazine
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Calamity Again … The poem is called “Calamity Again.”  The original version was written in Ukrainian …
Discussion: Washington Post
Financial Times:   Former European leaders resign from Russian corporate boards
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story, Insider and Hennessy's View
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Now is the time to remember what Fox's own lawyers said about Tucker Carlson … As Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, the biggest star on Fox News was busy doing what he does best: being thoroughly and appallingly wrong.  —  He defended the murderous instigator Vladimir Putin …
Ann Coulter:
Stop Talking About Ukraine, Republicans!
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
How Putin's mistakes rallied his enemies
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Is It Amnesia or Hypocrisy That Fuels the GOP's Crazy Response to Putin?
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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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.
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Russians Now See a New Side to Putin: Dragging Them Into War  —  The autocrat who has steered Russia for 22 years was embraced by many Russians for what they saw as his rationality and astute risk management.  That image has been upended.  —  MOSCOW — Russians thought they knew their president.
Discussion: Associated Press
Sam Adler-Bell / New York Magazine:
The Pandemic Interpreter … Approximately 5 million people start their day with David Leonhardt, the author of the New York Times' morning newsletter.  That figure makes Leonhardt one of the most influential writers at the most influential paper in the country.
Evan Smith / The Texas Tribune:
T-Squared: Ross Ramsey, our executive editor and co-founder, will retire on May 1 after more than four decades in journalism  —  A beloved reporter and columnist who knows more about Texas politics than just about anyone alive, he's been instrumental to the Tribune's operations and evolution.
Ben Blanchard / Washington Free Beacon:
Chinese Aircraft Move Into Taiwan's Air Defense Zone  —  TAIPEI (Reuters)—Taiwan's air force scrambled again on Thursday to warn away nine Chinese aircraft that entered its air defense zone, Taiwan's defense ministry said, on the same day that Russia invaded Ukraine, a crisis being watched closely in Taipei.
 
 
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