Russian forces push towards Kyiv A day after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had destroyed more th...
Russian forces push towards Kyiv
A day after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had destroyed more than 70 military targets, including 11 airfields, a helicopter and four drones. Russian forces too captured the old nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, north of Kiev, site of the 1986 nuclear disaster. Explosions have been reported in Kiev, Kharkiv and elsewhere.
In a short video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at least 137 Ukrainians have been killed so far. Russian saboteurs entered Kiev, the capital, he added. He said he feared the country would not receive military assistance. President Biden has said that US forces will not fight in Ukraine, but that additional troops will be deployed towards Germany and NATO’s eastern flank to strengthen the defences.
Thousands of Ukrainian civilians have fled the cities of the country, with buses and cars full of family members, pets and belongings saved miles outside Kiev. Anna, a Chernihiv resident who was stuck in traffic, wiped away tears as she spoke to reporters at The Times. “I’m sorry, I’m afraid for my children,” she said.
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Goals : Zelensky described himself as the “No. 1 target” of Russian forces, followed by his family, but vowed to stay in the capital. “I ask the citizens of Kyiv to be vigilant and respect the rules of martial law,” he said. He disputed Russia’s claims that it was only hitting military targets.
The case of war: For the second time in a few days, Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, spoke to the Russians about his goals in Ukraine. He described the conflict as one against the West as a whole and argued that the West wanted to use Ukraine as a springboard to invade and destroy Russia.
“Putin chose this war”
Biden, vowing to make Putin an “outcast”, yesterday announced tough new penalties aimed at cutting off Russia’s biggest banks and some oligarchs from much of the global financial system, and preventing the country from importing American technology essential to its defense, aerospace and maritime industries.
The package is expected to ripple through businesses and households in Russia, where concern over Putin’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine has already begun to set in. It was the second round of US sanctions imposed on Russia this week. The Russian stock market fell over 30% yesterday, wiping out a huge amount of wealth.
The sanctions against the financial giants will cause immediate disruption to the Russian economy but are manageable in the longer term, analysts say. Technology restrictions, on the other hand, could cripple the ability of some Russian industries to keep up. They were accompanied by a storm of sanctions from the EU as well as Britain and other countries.
Quoteable: “Putin chose this war, and now he and his country will suffer the consequences,” Biden said in remarks from the East Room of the White House. “This will impose a significant cost on the Russian economy, both immediately and over time.”
Effects: The price of oil at one point topped $105 a barrel, European natural gas futures soared more than 50% and global stock indices fell yesterday as Russia invaded Ukraine. prolonged market turmoil.
By the numbers: Russia has a large sovereign wealth fund and has accumulated foreign currency reserves of $631 billion, the fourth largest such reserve in the world. Some analysts have suggested that the only way to destroy its macroeconomic stability would be to sanction the central bank and introduce an Iranian-style embargo on energy exports.
Russians see a new side to Putin
For most of his 22-year rule, Putin has portrayed himself as a leader who shrewdly manages the risk of navigating Russia through treacherous shoals. But his attack on Ukraine revealed him to the Russians as a completely different boss: the one who drags the nuclear superpower he leads into a war with no foreseeable outcome.
Russians woke up in shock after learning that Putin, in an address to the nation broadcast before 6 a.m. local time, had ordered a full-scale assault on what Russians of all political stripes often call their “brotherly nation,” even as state-run news media called the invasion not a war, but a “special military operation” limited to eastern Ukraine.
In the Moscow foreign policy establishment, where analysts have overwhelmingly called Putin’s military buildup around Ukraine an elaborate and shrewd bluff in recent months, many admitted yesterday that they had seriously misjudged their leader. “Everything we believed turned out to be wrong,” said an analyst, who insisted on anonymity.
Consequences: The Russian stock market fell 35% and ATMs ran out of dollars. On the internet in the country, which is still mostly uncensored, Russians watched their much-vaunted army wreaking havoc on a land where millions of them had relatives and friends.
‘No to war!’ : Thousands of people invaded the streets and squares of Russian cities yesterday to protest Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, only to be met with a heavy police presence.
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