JUST IN – Biden is holding a phone call with German Chancellor Scholz today

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BREAKING – Israel is blocking the transfer of Iron Dome missile defense system to Ukraine (has to be approved by both countries) because they don’t want to antagonize Russia.

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URGENT – NATO defense ministers said Russia's recognition of the DPR and LPR would be a violation of Ukraine's sovereignty

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🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Twitter:

"Reports of alleged abnormal military activity by Ukraine in Donbas are a blatant attempt by the Russian government to fabricate pretexts for invasion.

This is straight out of the Kremlin playbook.

🇬🇧 will continue to call out Russia’s disinformation."

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NEW – NATO still sees no signs of a withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine and continues to monitor the situation around the border, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference.

Stoltenberg stressed that, "on the contrary, Russia's military build-up is likely to continue."

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BREAKING – The Norwegian Minister of Defence will not participate in the Munich Security Conference as planned, but will return to Norway from Brussels later today:

"To be available for decision-making, due to the current situation"

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BREAKING – US Secretary of Defence U.S. Blinken says Russia’s military buildup of ‘more’ than 150,000 troops on Ukraine’s border is a ‘manufactured provocation’

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JUST IN – 🇺🇸⚡US looks into Russia's response to Washington's response to security guarantees - Blinken

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🇺🇸⚡"The most immediate threat to peace and security is Russia's looming aggression against Ukraine," Blinken

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BIG ⚠️ "This crisis directly affects every member of this council and every country in the world," Blinken says at the UN

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Fact: Russian backed forces shelled kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska, Ukraine today. We need all the eyes of the democratic world to be in Ukraine today to monitor, witness the truth and by doing so to prevent aggressor from such provocations and further attacks.

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JUST IN – Russian army in Belarus threatens Baltic states and Poland, says Lithuanian president – Reuters

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🌐⚡US, Allies Warn Possible Russian Cyberattacks Could Reverberate Globally 

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"With an unprecedented deployment of troops on the border with Ukraine and Cold War demands, Russia is challenging fundamental principles of the European peace order," German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says, ahead of the annual Munich Security Conference

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"The United States has received intelligence indicating that Russia's announced withdrawal of troops from the Ukrainian border was a deliberate ploy to mislead Washington." — The Washington Post.

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JUST IN – Biden to hold video talks with Western leaders on Ukraine Friday

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URGENT – 🇺🇸⚡US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday said Washington was seeing "more" Russian forces moving into the Ukraine border region, despite Moscow's announcement of withdrawals.

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NEW – The 🇪🇺 European Union is preparing a package of sanctions against Russia, which “much more powerful than in 2014,” said the Prime Minister of Poland

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Stay strong Western World!

US Secretary of State Blinken: "Everything that we’re seeing, including what you’ve described in the last 24, 48 hrs is part of a scenario that's already in play of creating false provocations, of then having to respond to those provocations & then ultimately committing new aggression against Ukraine"

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JUST IN – UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that Britain had already agreed with partners in the G7 and the European Union on sanctions against Russia in the event of a military invasion of Ukraine.

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