- Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned the United Nations Security Council Ministerial Meeting on Ukraine Sovereignty and Russian Accountability one year and one week ago that Russia was planning to invade Ukraine.
- Seven days later, Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
- Russia has killed tens of thousands of Ukrainian men, women, and children; uprooted more than 13 million people from their homes; destroyed more than half of the country’s energy grid; bombed more than 700 hospitals, 2,600 schools; and abducted at least 6,000 Ukrainian children.
- The world community has come together to stand behind Ukraine and the principles of the United Nations Charter that make all countries safer and more secure.
- Any peace must honor Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty, which Putin has rejected.
- The Biden administration today announced $2 billion in military aid to Ukraine, while the G7 has increased its 2023 support for Ukraine to $39 billion.
- Russia’s deputy chair of security council, former president Dmitry Medvedev, said today that Russia planned to “push the borders of threats to our country as far as possible, even if these are the borders of Poland.”
- Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said: “Victory will be inevitable. I am certain there will be victory.”
Published February 25, 2023
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