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Yesterday we woke up to the bleak news that Russia had invaded Ukraine. Today we are expecting a Russian tank attack on its capital, Kyiv, which could become the hardest day in the war, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister said.
Russian troops are advancing on Kyiv and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy pleaded with the international community to do more, saying the sanctions announced so far are not enough. An estimated 100,000 people have fled as explosions and gunfire rocked major cities, and dozens have been reported killed, according to Reuters.
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Ukrainian officials are angry that European leaders have held back from imposing the potentially most damaging sanction on Russia, blocking Russia from an international payments system through which it receives foreign currency.
However, other new sanctions have been imposed by the UK, US, the European Union and other…
