BY CAMERON ARCAND | P J MEDIA
Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo
via AP
According to reports on the ground, Russia is invading
Ukraine tonight.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who is the vice-chair of the
Senate Intelligence Committee, tweeted that the invasion is now “underway.”
“In the hours to
come #Russia will… conduct strikes on air defense systems… move to
cut off #Kyiv from eastern #Ukraine… move to cut off
Ukraine’s military forces on the line of contact in the east to prevent them
from falling back to defend Kyiv,” Rubio tweeted.
In addition, Kan News correspondent Amichai Stein tweeted
that Ukrainian airspace is shut down.
Stein also tweeted that Russian President Vladimir Putin
said in an address tonight that he is launching “special military action”
against Ukraine.
According to ABC News, a U.S. official has been informed that Russian
military leaders are at their “command center” and “cyberattacks are underway.”
The United Nations Security Council is holding a meeting
to discuss the situation, even though Russia is this month’s president of the
council.
“President Putin, stop your troops from attacking
Ukraine. Give peace a chance. Too many people have already died,” U.N.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a desperate attempt to avoid war,
Fox reported.
“We are here tonight because we believe, along with
Ukraine, that a full-scale, further invasion into Ukraine by Russia is
imminent,” United States Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield said,
according to CNN.
“Tonight we’re seeing the Russians close airspace, move
troops into Donbas and move forces into combat-ready positions,” she added.
“This is a perilous moment and we are here for one reason and one reason only,
to ask Russia to stop.”
