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President Biden condemned the invasion on Thursday as “a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering” and announced “devastating packages of sanctions and other economic measures to hold Russia to account.”
Early Thursday morning, President Vladimir Putin of Russia declared a “special military operation” in Ukraine, beginning what could prove the most significant military conflict in Europe since World War II.
In what Ukraine’s government called “a full-scale attack from multiple directions,” the Russian military rained fire on Ukrainian airports and cities, killing more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers and dozens of civilians in the first hours of the attack, according to Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States
