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Press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg following the second day of meetings of NATO Defense Ministers. (NATO Official Photo).
Despite weeks of warning, Russia’s Feb. 24 decision to launch an invasion of Ukraine caught much of the world by surprise. Russian President Vladimir Putin released what appeared to be a pre-recorded statement just as the offensive began, wherein he described the commencement of a “special military operation” aimed at defending the Ukrainian breakaway territories of Donetsk and Luhansk, which he had recently recognized as independent countries, as well as the “demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.” Within minutes, the first of a barrage of The World Reacts to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine