Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues after Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” on its neighbor.
President Joe Biden, in coordination with a number of NATO nations and other allies, have implemented a comprehensive package of devastating sanctions on Russia for its invasion, which sent Russian currency plummeting and isolated the Kremlin from the rest of the world’s economy.
Overall death tolls in the conflict are unclear, but a senior Western intelligence official estimated on Tuesday that more than 5,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or captured so far.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, citing attacks on civilians, blasted Moscow’s actions as “frank, undisguised terror” and accused them of war crimes. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Monday that he is opening a probe into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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