This could be the first salvoes of the Ukraine-Russian war. It appears President Biden is correct.
19 Februray 2022
With tension escalating (click here) between Ukraine and Russia, full military mobilization was ordered on Saturday by separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine. Also soldiers have been put on standby in Kremlin-backed eastern territories Donetsk and Luhansk. As Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelenskiy asserted that the country is looking at ‘peace’, the US vice president Kamala Harris said, The world “is at a decisive moment in history." Meanwhile, several European nations have asked citizens to leave Ukraine. Check the latest development here....
Putin's Pro-Russian forces are in violation of the ceasefire. As soon as Ukraine takes action they will off to the races and it will activate Putin's Russian forces. What should be happening is Russia moving to end the shelling. The shelling is offensive and coming from Pro-Russian separatists with munitions provided by Russia. Russia needs to step in and stop the shelling.
1:40 PMBy Grayson Quay
Ukraine's military said artillery shells fired by Russian-backed separatists (click here) killed two Ukrainian soldiers and wounded four others in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, Reuters reported.
According to Reuters, the "Ukrainian military said on its Facebook page" at around 5:00 p.m. local time that "it had recorded 70 ceasefire violations by separatists since the start of the day compared with 66 cases over the previous 24 hours." Since 2014, around 14,000 people have been killed in fighting between the separatists and Ukrainian government forces.
Fox News foreign correspondent Trey Yingst, who pulled back from the front in eastern Ukraine on Saturday afternoon after the unit with which he was embedded came under separatist artillery fire, said the Ukrainian forces he was with did not return fire. He also said other Ukrainian troops he had spoken with earlier in the week said they returned fire in response to other attacks, but only "within the confines of the [Minsk] Agreement," which banned heavy weapons from the front....