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President Joe Biden condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine Wednesday and vowed to impose “severe” new sanctions on Moscow in response.
Biden said in a statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering.”
He called the military operation, which Putin announced in a televised speech just before dawn on Thursday in Moscow, an “unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces.”