Ukraine accused President Vladimir Putin of carrying out a full-scale invasion after the Russian president said he ordered a special military operation to protect the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
Stalled Ukraine-Russia peace talks and a recent Russian buildup of troops near the Ukrainian border are raising tensions in Europe and with the U.S. Kyiv and its Western partners should send Moscow a strong deterrence message while also proposing mutual de-escalatory measures.
advisers took that campaign-authorized trip to moscow. well, about a week after that platform fight, the day after the republican convention ended, there was another political bomb that was dropped on the u.s. presidential election from russ russia. the day after the republican convention ended, right before the democratic convention began we got what u.s. intelligence agencies believed to be the next big russian incursion into our election. we got the first wikileaks dump. we got the first wikileaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by russian government sources from the dnc, from the democratic party, and they started publishing those stolen documents from the dnc right before the democrats started their convention. that s how the democrats got to start their nominating convention, with the chair of the party resigning and the party and campaign being blindsided by selectively