Russia Sends Troops Into Two Areas Of Ukraine

A military vehicle drives on a road as smoke rises from a power plant after shelling outside the town of Schastia, near the eastern Ukraine city of Lugansk, on February 22, 2022, a day after Russia recognized east Ukraine's separatist republics and ordered the Russian army to send troops there as "peacekeepers."

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New developments are unfolding right now in Ukraine. Russian troops are said to be moving into two territories now recognized by Russia as independent states. That decision is raising fears about a full-scale invasion but Ukraine's president doesn't think that will happen. He said today there won't be an all out war and is urging Russia to sit down at the negotiating table. The number of troops surrounding Ukraine is reportedly up to nearly 200,000.