Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a military operation in eastern Ukraine. In a televised address, he said he was taking action to “demilitarize” Ukraine in response to threats coming from Kyiv and that Russia doesn't have a goal to occupy Ukraine. But he warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to "immediate consequences they have never seen in history." | Newsweek

143K views · 1.3K reactions | President Biden continued his heavy criticism of Vladimir Putin during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Biden said Russia's president "badly miscalculated" his invasion into Ukraine, but "met a wall of strength he never anticipated," the Ukrainian people. https://cbsn.ws/3K9hVyD | CBS News | Facebook

Biden says Putin "has much larger ambitions than Ukraine." "He wants to, in fact, reestablish the former Soviet Union. That's what this is about. And I think that his ambitions are completely contrary to the place where the rest of the world has arrived." https://cbsn.ws/3vkIpt7 | CBS News