The Russian military has begun a brutal assault on the people of Ukraine.

Without provocation, without justification, without necessity, this is a premeditated attack.

A major invasion is underway of Ukraine by the Russian Federation.

Vladimir Putin has decided to ignore all the warnings of diplomacy and the economic sanctions

that have already been taken against this country to go in with a three-pronged assault

by sea, land and air from the north, the east and the south of Ukraine to take territory

and to smash the Ukrainian military and government as fast as he can.

As you can see here, there is fighting, there is ongoing hostilities all over Ukraine right

now. A lot of the forces, the primary forces, the Russians have deployed coming in for fighting

in and around Kiev as well as Karkeev, Kiev also known as Kiev.

So you have major cities, the site of some of the fighting that has already been done

and just getting started. There you see on the screen, Russian aerial attack going on.

They try to seize airfields, important critical infrastructure sites.

Overall, this is the scenario that the world, the international community, NATO and of course

us here at home in America wanted to avoid a war in Europe once again.

Biden is saying that this is unfolding largely as his administration predicted. Watch this.

Vladimir Putin has been planning this for months as long as we've been saying all along.

He moved more than 175,000 troops, military equipment positions along the Ukrainian border.

He moved blood supplies into position and build a field hospital which tells you all you

need to know about his intentions all along. He rejected every good faith effort the United

States and our allies and partners made to address our mutual security concerns through

dialogue to avoid needless conflict and avert human suffering. For weeks, for weeks, we

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