War broke out anyway, and unexpectedly...
According to Reuters, Ukraine's representative to the United Nations said that Russia's representative to the United Nations has confirmed that Russian President Putin has declared war on Ukraine.
On the 24th local time, Russian media reported that the Russian military has begun to use missiles to attack Ukraine.
According to Interfax, Russia has hit military installations across Ukraine. Ukraine's military command centers in Kiev and Kharkov were also hit by missiles.
On our side, this day is an ordinary Thursday, and many people who are accustomed to peaceful days have no reverence for this war that broke out thousands of kilometers away, but ridiculed it.
I think you should care about the war in Ukraine, about the direction of the situation, because you are a Chinese;
But you shouldn't take war as a joke, because you're a human being.
This war will affect each and every one of us to a greater or lesser extent.
Each of us should know how this war came to this point:
Earlier, Putin announced special military operations in the Donbass region, and he also said that Ukraine's accession to NATO is completely unacceptable.
CNN reporters heard several loud explosions near Kiev, the ukrainian capital, and then quoted the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs as saying that the explosions were caused by missile attacks.
Subsequently, the Ukrainian foreign minister said that Putin had launched an all-out war against Ukraine and that Ukraine would defend itself.
Unexpectedly, Putin really did it.
Beforehand, he urged the Ukrainian army to "lay down its arms and go home."
Putin warned that all the responsibility for any potential bloodshed would rest with the Ukrainian government, saying he was confident that Russian servicemen would fulfill their duties.
The White House released a message saying that Biden condemned Russia for choosing a premeditated war.
But the White House does not consider sending troops to Ukraine and will not choose to intervene in the war.
The Ukrainian leader temporarily sent a short video informing Ukrainians to remain calm.
He said" "Just spoke to the President of the United States a minute ago, and the United States promised to speak for Ukraine at the United Nations."
Once again, the United States will not intervene in the war.
The speed of the fighting nation is not generally fast.
Almost ten minutes for an update.
Within an hour of fighting, the Ukrainian Navy and Air Force had been completely annihilated.
Subsequently, the Command of the Ukrainian National Guard was destroyed.
Belarus also announced its entry into the war, providing military support to Russia.
Internet rumors spread that Russian troops landed high in the vicinity of Kharkov
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Russian marine forces entered Ukrainian territory from multiple directions.
Ukraine's military power is constantly being devastated.
At this moment, Russia is still on duty at the United Nations.
It is worth noting that just when the focus of the world was on Russia and Ukraine, the United States took advantage of the chaos to bomb Somalia.
The United States would rather fight Somalia than send troops to Ukraine.
The reaction of all walks of life to this war is different -
The Russians put a sculpture of Lenin in their homes and invited him to watch Putin's televised speeches.
The outbreak of war led to a dive in global stock markets and gold to rise.
Even Japan's Television Tokyo interrupted the normal program and immediately inserted the news.
You know, even TV Tokyo, which was broadcasting cartoons in the Great Earthquake of Japan, actually paid attention to the Ukrainian-Russian War, and you can imagine how much impact it had.
Of course, the most tragic thing is the Ukrainian people.
The Kiev metro, the capital of Ukraine, is open free of charge and will be used as an air raid shelter.
CNN released a video of several Ukrainian citizens kneeling on the street in prayer.
"I'm an optimistic person and I'm okay with everything. But my husband was different, waking up every night and missing our son. He died in battle when he was 30 years old, and I couldn't even go to his grave. ”
This old man, who called himself the "Optimist Sect", used his calm face to cover his wife who was constantly sobbing behind him, and his son who would never come back.
Documentary "Inside the Trenches of Eastern Ukraine"
In eastern Ukraine, war has destroyed countless such families.
Ukraine has also repeatedly turned to Europe and the United States and other countries for help, but has no substantive help except solidarity.
The UK even intends to take a cyber strike against Russia due to the pandemic.
The German chancellor tweeted his strong condemnation in solidarity with Ukraine ...
Forced to help, Ukraine is even seeking India's help.
In the end, ukraine, unable to do anything, decided to sever diplomatic relations with Russia.
Russian presidential press secretary Peskov said: If the Ukrainian side is ready to engage in dialogue on Moscow's security concerns, Russian President Putin will hold talks with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy.
Just now, Ukrainian border guards said Russian troops had burst into the Kiev region of Ukraine.
Tensions between Ukraine and Russia have reached their highest level in years.
Today, in the face of this war Putin has long been deployed, Russia has previously assembled heavy troops near Ukraine, deploying more than 4,000 miles and 127,000 troops.
Satellite image to see the Russian border army
Russia announced a "comprehensive naval exercise" by sending six landing ships across the English Channel to attack the Black Sea and enhance amphibious landing capabilities on the southern coast of Ukraine.
A huge deployment is also quietly encircling Kiev: short-range ballistic missiles, elite special forces and anti-aircraft batteries, and the expansion of mercenaries to supply troops with fuel, tanks and artillery.
All this shows that it is only a matter of time before Russia takes full action.
The Ukrainian side also took action, urgently deploying tank brigades, mechanized brigades, motorized infantry brigades to lock the defensive line.
Ukrainian territorial defense forces and volunteers
Ukrainian soldiers are stationed on the Ukrainian-Russian border
In December 2021, Ukrainian soldiers marched to the front
The evacuation of western countries is coming.
U.S. President Joe Biden ordered the evacuation of U.S. Embassy staff in Ukraine and urged the emigrants to leave.
The Uk kingdom has begun to withdraw staff from the Embassy in Ukraine.
The United States and Russia face off hard.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that If the United States and ITS allies continue to support Ukraine, Moscow "will take action to protect its own security."
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States is working intensively to prepare a series of measures that will fight back if peaceful diplomacy fails to resolve and if Russia invades Ukraine.
"Either way, we're ready. Now the choice is in Putin's hands. Blinken said.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg also said: "Russia will pay a high price for this." We will impose economic and financial sanctions and political restrictions on Russia.
Biden said he would convene a meeting of G7 leaders to discuss how to sanction Russia.
Relations between Ukraine and Russia, the former Soviet Union, have been strained.
Putin has long argued that Ukraine, the birthplace of medieval Russia, was a "fake state" and an "inalienable part of Russia."
He expounded this view in his long essay "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians."
In 2013, the two countries escalated over political and trade deals with the European Union.
Under pressure from Russia, then-Pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych suspended "partnership" talks with the European Union, sparking popular discontent.
Weeks of protests erupted in Kiev, which turned violent.
In March 2014, Russia annexed Crimea, a pro-Russian autonomous peninsula in southern Ukraine, under the pretext of "defending the interests of its Russian-speaking citizens."
Thousands of Russian soldiers, known as the "Little Green Man," poured into the Crimean Peninsula.
Most countries, including Ukraine, slammed Russia's actions as illegal.
Russian soldiers patrol the Crimea on March 20, 2014
Soon after, pro-Russian separatists from Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine jumped on the bandwagon and declared independence from Kiev, sparking months of fierce fighting.
In 2015, Ukrainian pro-Russian soldiers arrived in Debarceve, in the east of the country
Although the two countries, brokered by France and Germany, signed the Minsk Peace Agreement in 2015, they repeatedly violated the ceasefire agreement.
According to the United Nations, more than 3,000 conflict-related civilian deaths have occurred in eastern Ukraine since March 2014.
Ukrainian soldiers on the Ukrainian-Russian border
Russia has issued hundreds of thousands of Russian passports in the rebel-held region of Eastern Wudong, warning that it would come to the rescue of citizens if Ukraine launched an offensive.
This passport is called "Putin's secret weapon."
"The main responsibility for this dilemma lies with NATO." The New York Times said so.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, the old pattern fell apart one by one, and some Western countries also proposed the dissolution of NATO.
However, instead of disbanding, NATO is expanding.
In 2008, NATO — a U.S.-led alliance explicitly created to counter the Soviet Union — committed to incorporating two former Soviet republics, Ukraine and Georgia. It was the worst of the West's insults to Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. ”
The relationship between Ukraine and NATO is ambiguous as to whether it is an ally, a member or a partner, but NATO is willing to shelve the controversy and increase its military support for Ukraine.
The NATO Foreign Ministers' Meeting was held in Riga, the capital of Latvia
NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium
At an annual news conference in Moscow on December 23, 2021, Putin described NATO's eastward expansion as an existential threat to Russia.
Putin has come to realize that if he continues to be on a stable, predictable trajectory, as Biden puts it, he will lose.
At this moment, Britain and the United States turned the propaganda machine, preached the Russian invasion theory, preemptively evacuated the diaspora, and constantly shouted at Russia that they would be sanctioned individually and physically.
Russia has become a widely recognized imaginary enemy of NATO, and has caused panic in Ukraine, and people have begun to grab shopping funds in preparation for the "winter of war".
The United States has shipped weapons to Ukraine and authorized the three Baltic states to supply Ukraine with U.S.-made weapons, such as anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft missiles.
Blinken tweeted his determination to continue supplying weapons.
The United States and Russia have made little progress on Ukraine, and the outcome of the latest round of high-level talks between the two sides is simply: continue the conversation ...
On the side of the British Empire, the action is even more difficult.
Britain declared on January 22 that Russia was supporting a group of Ukrainian "pro-Russian" personalities, including former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevgen Murayev.
The parties immediately punched the British self-written and self-acted "puppet script": it was simply "funny"!
"As a person who has been sanctioned by the Russian side for 4 years, who has been banned from entry by Russia as a security threat, and whose father's assets in Russia have been frozen, I have nothing to say about the statement of the British Foreign Office."
The United Kingdom created a topic, because Prime Minister Johnson was deeply involved in the "Christmas party" scandal, disregarded the epidemic prevention measures, and made three queues in the mansion, the support rate fell, and the Conservative Party was also affected and needed to divert attention.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said this was yet another proof that it was the "Anglo-Saxons" who had escalated tensions in Ukraine.
Why is Ukraine considered a "sacrifice" by the United States?
The first is to contain Russia and sell arms, and the other is to drag the EU into the battlefield against Russia, cooperate with the dollar to raise interest rates, let capital flow back to the mainland, harvest a handful of Europe, and let NATO troops enter Ukraine, and even deploy missiles in their own territory.
The condition set by the United States to join NATO is that "there can be no territorial disputes," which is a bait that Ukraine will never be able to reach.
Ukraine has been fooled into being unable to reconcile the contradictions on the Eastern Front, and then unable to join NATO, and can only make ineffective maneuvers with Russia.
In order to run to NATO, Ukraine, which was originally the world's leading military power, gave up all military heavy industry and was fooled and lame. Like Iraq and Afghanistan, it has become a military paradise for Western countries.
The country's strength declined, the economy withered, and the people were poor.
War is really a very serious thing;
No matter what the purpose of the war, it will not avoid the destruction of the family, and there will be no winner in the end of the war.
Behind the merciless guns and shells are innocent children crying in the corner, old mothers waiting for soldiers to return home, wives who have lost their husbands, flesh and blood blurred corpses, the suffering of millions or even tens of millions of people...
Do those who joke about the war really think it's funny?
Behind your joke is the collapse of a nation, the suffering of many people for a lifetime;
This kind of joke really can't be made, war is cruel, we have experienced war, we should know the cost of war.
May there be peace in the world.
Finally, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reminds us
Source: North American International Student Daily
Author: Mocha
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