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Ukraine, Texas, and Manhattan - February 23, 2022

The Somme

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Ukraine and Russia

As the UN Security Council met Wednesday night in Manhattan once again seeking to avert war, Russian President Vladimir Putin broadcast a speech—at 5 a.m. Thursday morning Moscow time—announcing that the war would begin. Putin said specifically that he had authorized a “military operation … aimed at the demili…