President Joe Biden and the U.S. government has promised to provide weapons to the country of Ukraine, as they fight back the Russian invasion force.
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The Treasury Department says that the latest sanctions target Russian banks which hold approximately eighty percent of the nation's financial assets. The state-owned SherBank and VTB hold almost $750 billion in Russian assets.
Most governments don't recommend that their citizens begin mixing Molotov cocktails, but NPR reported on Friday morning that the Ukrainian government has recommended that the citizens remaining in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities under siege "fight with anything they can find to neutralize the occupiers."
Late Thursday, the Ukrainian government reported that their military forces had recaptured a strategic airport situated outside Kyiv. The Antonov Airport would have been a vital Russian asset providing Moscow with a way to fly in more troops as well as military equipment into a city near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
A Ukrainian official who works as an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shared that Russian troops have taken control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but not without a spirited fight from Ukrainian military.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy's net worth is estimated to be about $1.5 million U.S. dollars. Before becoming Ukraine's President, he had a successful acting and comedy career.
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In what could be considered an all-out declaration of war on the Ukraine, Russia carried out simultaneous attacks via land and air, hitting the country with attacks from the north, south, and east. Tanks rolled across the Ukraine border; planes flew over dropping bombs across the country.
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For nearly one year, Ukrainians have anticipated a Russian invasion. Russian President Vladimir Putin has spent the last few months placing troops along the border of the Ukraine, particularly at Belarus. He's also demanded that the Ukraine not be allowed to join NATO as many other Eastern European countries have done.