Today is Friday, February 25th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented

by Batches Media, I'm Sammy Sage.

Attacks have been launched across the entire country of Ukraine from all borders, amounting

to 137 casualties so far.

There are now 190,000 Russian troops in the region, and if you remember those casual military

exercises in Belarus last week, they turned out to be relevant as ground troops entered

Ukraine from the north yesterday.

So if it walks like a military exercise and talks like a military exercise, you know

the rest.

Some Ukrainians tried to flee Kiev or escape to Poland, while many who stayed took shelter

in subway stations that they used as bomb shelters, or they were put under blackout orders

to use as little light as possible.

One of the earlier highlights from yesterday is that the Russians took Chernobyl and the fighting

destroyed a nuclear waste storage facility in the process, which I think is probably one

of the worst storage facilities you could destroy.

As of this recording at 10pm Eastern, Russian forces were entering the capital, Kiev, and

according to Pentagon intelligence, they have every intention of overthrowing the government.

In Russia, anti-war protests broke out across the country, and approximately 1,400 protesters

were arrested yesterday.

President Biden gave a press conference yesterday afternoon where he announced the next wave

of sanctions and the deployment of an additional 7,000 troops to Europe to reassure NATO allies.

There are a lot of new sanctions, but definitely not the most harsh options available.

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