The U.S. has sent a letter to the U.N., warning that Russia has created a 'kill list' of Ukrainians to be attacked or detained in the case it invades the country, according to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
Russia has repeatedly said it doesn't plan to invade Ukraine — a country it invaded in 2014, when it illegally annexed Crimea. Despite its denials, Russia has done little to reassure people in Ukraine and beyond that it respects its neighbor's sovereignty. The U.S. said Russia's military continued to build up its force along the Ukrainian border over the weekend, the latest in a string of provocations that the White House said points to an imminent invasion.
The list is said to include journalists, activists, ethnic and religious minorities, and LGBTQ Ukrainians. Other likely targets include opponents of Russia's strategic goals and dissidents from Russia and Belarus who have taken refuge in Ukraine."Most Ukrainians don't think Russia will invade," NPR's Frank Langfitt reports from Kyiv."They think it would be catastrophic not only for Ukraine, but also for President Putin and Russia.
The Warsaw Pact was a Soviet-era treaty with Central and Eastern European counties to serve as counterweight to NATO.. The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined in 1999. Seven more countries followed suit in 2004, including Latvia and Estonia, which share a border with Russia, and Lithuania, which borders Belarus and Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave along the Baltic Sea.
Putin is"looking for some things that we could provide: a guarantee that there aren't going to be Western missiles based in Ukraine, for example, [and] more transparency around conventional forces and exercises," the senator said. "That's a question that impacts the sovereignty of the Ukrainian people," Coons said."They've put into their constitution that they intend to join NATO. And NATO can't just shut the door on Ukraine unilaterally, nor should we, in response to Russian bullying or threats. So Putin's going to have to be willing to accept something other than a closing of the door to NATO membership for Ukraine.
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