🇺🇸 🇷🇺 Biden: Putin wants to reestablish the former Soviet Union - "Putin has much larger ambitions than Ukraine. He wants to, in fact, reestablish the former Soviet Union. That's what this is about."

🇺🇸 Biden:

- Russia rejected all US attempts to resolve its security concerns;

- new sanctions and export restrictions against Russia;

- we will limit Russia's ability to do business in dollars, pounds and yen;

- The US imposes sanctions against the largest bank in Russia, new US sanctions also apply to VTB;

- US troops will not participate in the battles in Ukraine;

- new US sanctions against Russia will affect the Russian space program;

- authorized the sending of additional American troops to Germany.

🇺🇸 President Biden Delivers Remarks on Russia's Unprovoked and Unjustified Attack on Ukraine | White House

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 ZAPORIZHIA 📍 - The area of ​​the former restaurant "Lahti", ex. lenin avenue

🇺🇦 The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has officially confirmed the occupation of the Zmeiny Island by the Russian Navy

🗺 Map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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🇺🇦🇷🇺❗ Heavy battles in sumy

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗❗More videos from Sumy

🇷🇺 Russia legalizes cryptocurrency to circumvent US sanctions - New York Times

🇺🇦 Sumy

🇺🇦 Kharkov residents spending the night in the metro

⚡🇷🇺 Russian tanks in Berdyansk and Energodar

⚡🇷🇺 Berdyansk is less than 85km west of Mariupol

Igor Strelkov's summary of the first day of operations, published a few hours ago

The offensive was completely unexpected and the missile strikes established immediate Russian air and naval dominance.

There are four main theaters of ground operations.

1. Southern Front: Russians launched an offensive north out of Crimea. There was a naval landing at Genichensk, and helicopter landings at Kherson and Novaya Kakhovka. The Ukrainian front collapsed immediately, and now the enemy's army is not present in this area at all. Bridgeheads have been created across the Dnieper for further advances. Attempts by the Ukrainians to form a front are discouraged by airstrikes. Russians reached Melitopol during the night.

The main strike groups will continue their offensive along the Dnieper, to the cities of Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk, towards Nikolaev, and in the rear of the army group in Donbass.

2. Donbass Front: The DPR is conducting a limited offensive towards Volnovakha, in order to threaten Mariupol and link up with the Southern Front. This has tied up thousands of Ukrainian troops.

The LPR offensives across the river have no real strategic objective besides tying up the Ukrainian forces to prevent them from being sent to Kharkov, and to keep them pinned down and encircled. They will continue heavy combat tomorrow to prevent the enemy from withdrawing.
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3. The "Russian Front:" Sumy, Konotop, and almost the entire Sumy province were captured; the enemy either did not intend to resist, or had insufficient numbers. Progress is being made towarde Chernigov and Russian units continue to advance deeper and outflank the Ukrainians resisting at Kharkov. Russians cannot allow Kharkov to remain under enemy control, and battles will continue to capture it tomorrow.

4. The Kiev Front: The airborne operation to capture the Gostomel airbase was a complete surprise to Ukrainian command. Now, these forces must link up with those crossing the border at Chernobyl, in order to prevent Ukrainian counterattacks. If the connection is made soon, the fate of Kiev is clear.

In general: Simultaneous attacks in many directions have made the Ukrainian forces the weaker sider on every front. Thousands of them are sitting in Odessa, far away from any battlefield. Thousands more are deployed on the Belarusian border and not seeing any combat.

- Igor Strelkov