condemn the aggression that you launch on my people.

There is no purgatory for war criminals.

They go straight to hell, ambassador.

They go straight to hell.

Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations with that message to Russia's leadership as Russia

launches an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation.

The lamps are going out all over Europe.

We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

So, Sir, Edward Gray, lamented to a friend right before Britain's entry into World War I.

This morning, the pronouncements are Leshersian. Instead, the Washington Post writes of a Ukrainian

teenager calling his girlfriend, you need to get up. The war has begun.

As citizens of this besieged, European scramble for ATM machines, gas, and grocery

supplies, Russian troops are coming ever closer to their cities and their homes, and they're

invading with rockets and raining across the country.

Vladimir Putin puts his own country in jeopardy, economically and politically, in a

vain-glorious effort to reconstruct an evil empire that killed 30 million of its own people

before its own demise.

Now the only question is, how will America and the West respond to this brutish

use of power? The attack began early in the morning about 5 a.m. local time from neighboring

Belarus, Moscow's ally with explosions in several cities across Ukraine, including the capital

Kiev. Air raid sirens rang out across Kiev,

and Ukrainian officials reported that crews or ballistic missiles targeted military control centers.

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