Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a special military operation and pledged to oversee a “demilitarization and de-Nazification” of Ukraine.
He also gave a chilling warning to Ukraine’s allies in the West during an early Thursday morning address in Moscow.
‘To anyone who would consider interfering from the outside – if you do, you will face consequences greater than any you have faced in history,’ he said on a television broadcast around 6am Moscow time.
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Putin said he could no longer tolerate what he called threats from Ukraine.
Following the end of his short speech explosions were reported in Kiev, Odessa, Ukraine’s third-largest city, as well as the city of Kramatorsk in the eastern Donetsk region.
The Mail Online reports: The United Nations Security Council had just convened an emergency meeting Wednesday night when Putin took to Russian airwaves to announce the invasion at 5:50am Moscow time.
Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations, had urged Putin to stop his tanks.
‘If indeed an operation is being prepared, I have only one thing to say from the bottom of my heart,’ said Guterres.
‘President Putin, stop your troops from attacking Ukraine. Give peace a chance. Too many people have already died.’
Putin ignored the plea, going on TV to describe the invasion as a ‘special military occupation’ and said he wants to ‘demilitarize’ and ‘de-Nazify’, not occupy, the country.
He told Ukrainian service members to ‘lay down their arms and go home,’ saying Russia could not exist with a ‘constant threat emanating from the territory of Ukraine’ and clashes between Russian and Ukrainian solders was ‘inevitable.’
Niamh Harris
How
about Putin is just doing whats right? kicking the mad new world order
and their like out of a country that was an Russian ally with vast
numbers of Russians calling it home. before Soros and his buddies staged
a Coup in 2013 to install their hand picked lackeys.
It’s true Forces within Ukraine have been provocative did 8 years now and nafo hanging about looking sus. Everyone knows western its want Russia Have for centuries. They want China too and have for centuries as well. The imperialists that want to be Emperors.
The entire crisis, such as it is really not a crises for Americans, is the result of the schemes, deliberate mismanagement or manipulation of the Ukraine situation by Washington. Nuland (Kagan) admitted it on video and said ‘screw the EU’. Successive Administrations like little kids knocking boulders down a steep hill seeing what breaks. It appears Russia and Putin screwed up by allowing the 2014 putsch in Kiev and then holding out too long for a diplomatic solution that will never come from Washington. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwinds. A real conflict for Americans is unfolding here now; Prominent Republicans themselves unable to turn away from the shiny-penny of a new war! Newt and Lindsay even blaring about our sacred duty to protect freedom and territorial integrity in far away Ukraine while average American have nothing to gain and are paying the ultimate price. The issues are inflation, crime, border security and the wokism of the managerial classes. Those things will turn out Independents and Republican in November and put the Dims on the street. Not the sacred rights of the Junta in Kiev. I could scream every time the MSM has the Ukrainian traitor to America Vindman, in uniform! Urging America and Americans to fight for his homeland!
Don’t worry about the crisises in the USA Biden. Show us how goodly you are and worry about the Ukraine.