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Russia invading Ukraine (NEWS/UPDATES)

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Despite Russia's claimed
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, which the UN General Assembly rejected as invalid, the Government of Ukraine in 2014 reaffirmed its 1994 decision to accede to the
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as a non-nuclear-weapon state.

Pavlo Rizanenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament told
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that Ukraine may have to arm themselves with their own nuclear weapons if the United States and other world leaders do not hold up their end of the agreement. He said "We gave up nuclear weapons because of this agreement. Now, there's a strong sentiment in Ukraine that we made a big mistake." He also said that, "In the future, no matter how the situation is resolved in Crimea, we need a much stronger Ukraine. If you have nuclear weapons, people don't invade you."
 
Scotty said:
a state-sponsored assassination is tantamount to a declaration of war

(it also violates numerous treaties as well)

plus these dictator types tend to be awfully well guarded
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As you pointed out in another post, there's a very good reason why political leaders of major powers would be a bit reticent in agreeing the assassination of political leaders of major powers as a tool of policy.

Lot of Boy's Own James Bond fantasising going on in this thread.
 
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This video has got me in tears. Look at it man ffs. He’s saying goodbye to his kids. He’s probably going to die or at best be captured. He knows he’ll likely not see them again. This is heartbreaking. People can criticise the UK as much as they want but the reality of it is that we are lucky as fuck to live here, in peace. We’ll wake up tomorrow to go to work and do the things we choose to do this weekend. I’ll put my kids to bed tonight and see them in the morning. This bloke is going off to fight in an invasion. It’s ridiculous this has been allowed to happen.
 
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