Russia calls off humanitarian deals and ratchets up indiscriminate military attacks.

Vladimir Putin cracks down on dissent and threatens a wider war and the West talks about shipping planes into Ukraine.

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that free information kit today. Well, as expected, there was no let up over the weekend in the

conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. According to the Wall

Street Journal, Russian forces intensified strikes across Ukraine,

pushing toward the capital Kiev and the country's second largest city, Kharkiv,

while killing dozens of civilians and disrupting evacuation efforts. After beating off an initial Russian offensive, Ukraine is now preparing for a second wave of Russian attacks focused on

major population centers around the country. Ukraine's national security advisor, Olexi Danilov, said in a

social media post on Sunday, all of this according to the Wall Street Journal. The Russian plan,

he said, is to encircle Ukrainian forces and create a situation of humanitarian disaster for the

civilian population. Essentially, Ukraine's center is now surrounded on three sides. You have the

Russians making significant gains in the south. They are also

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