European officials reported that Russian troops had been spotted overnight moving into pro-Kremlin separatist territories in eastern Ukraine, whose independence Putin recognized yesterday.
on Tuesday ahead of a ministerial forum in Paris to discuss imposing sanctions on Russia, "I would not say it is a fully fledged invasion, but Russian troops are on Ukrainian soil."A senior U.S. official
on a briefing call Monday, telling reporters that Russian troops moving into the Donbas region "would not itself be a new step" because they had been there covertly since 2014.Almost immediately after announcing Russia would recognize the breakaway Ukrainian regions as independent on Monday night, Putin ordered Russian troops to enter eastern Ukraine to conduct "peacekeeping" operations.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, rejected this description as "nonsense" and accused Russia of "creating a pretext for war" during Monday night'sPresident Biden signed an executive order to sanction the breakaway Ukrainian regions, and the White House said there would be new sanctions on Russia due to its "breach of international law and attack on Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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