Kaitlan Collins

Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins

“At every step of the way, Russia has betrayed the United Nations. Russia’s actions go against everything this body stands for,” US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield says. — PolitiTweet.org

Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins

RT @Kevinliptakcnn: US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivers a message to Russian soldiers in Ukraine: "Your leaders are ly… — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked if he's considering banning Russian oil imports, Biden says, "Nothing is off the table." — PolitiTweet.org

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"We are following it very closely. It's early to say that," Biden tells @JDiamond1 on the war crimes question. — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden says it's clear President Putin is targeting civilians areas in Ukraine but isn't prepared to say he's committed war crimes yet. Asked if he thinks Zelensky should leave, he says, "I think it's his judgment to make and we're doing everything we can to help him." — PolitiTweet.org

Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins

Ditto. — PolitiTweet.org

Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins

"We’ve hardly slept for seven nights," President Zelensky says in a new address. "Or we sleep, but anxiously. My dears, the time will come when we'll be able to sleep, but it will be after the war, after the victory, in a peaceful country, as we need." — PolitiTweet.org

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"We remain clear-eyed. The Ukrainians are fighting back with pure courage, but the next few days, weeks and months will be hard on them," President Biden says tonight, noting a reality that officials have also acknowledged privately in recent days. — PolitiTweet.org

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"It’s time for Americans to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again. People working from home can feel safe to begin to return to the office," Biden says, then moments later adding, "Our schools are open. Let’s keep it that way. Our kids need to be in school." — PolitiTweet.org

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The FAA says the official notice will be posted by the end of day tomorrow. This includes scheduled passenger flights as well as cargo and charter flights, per @petemuntean. — PolitiTweet.org

Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins

Biden says Putin "sought to shake the very foundations of the free world" but he "badly miscalculated." "He thought he could roll into Ukraine & the world would roll over. Instead he met a wall of strength he never imagined or anticipated: the Ukrainian people." — PolitiTweet.org

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Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova rode along with other guests for tonight's State of the Union in the presidential motorcade. Ukrainian flags have been hung along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington in recent days as well. — PolitiTweet.org

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Commerce Secretary Raimondo is tonight's designated survivor, @betsy_klein reports. https://t.co/fqZEQvMT45 — PolitiTweet.org

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This follows decisions by UK, EU and Canada to do so. The White House said they were considering the large number of US flights that go over Russian airspace to get to Asia while making this decision. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @WSJ: Breaking: The U.S. is expected to ban Russian planes from its airspace, people familiar with the matter say, following prohibition… — PolitiTweet.org

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Confirmed: President Biden will announce tonight during his State of the Union address that the US is banning Russian aircraft from US airspace, joining a growing number of countries closing their skies to Russia following Putin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

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"I care less about what hour of the day or night this happens and more about the fact that what Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine is wrong," Ron Klain, Biden's chief of staff, tells NBC about possibility of a split screen of Biden addressing the nation & Putin bombing Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden will call out President Putin directly tonight in his State of the Union address, saying, "He rejected efforts at diplomacy. He thought the West and NATO wouldn’t respond. And, he thought he could divide us here at home. Putin was wrong. We were ready." — PolitiTweet.org

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First Lady Jill Biden has invited Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova to sit in her box at the State of the Union tonight. — PolitiTweet.org

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In their 30-minute call today, President Biden and President Zelensky "discussed Russia’s escalation of attacks on sites used by civilians in Ukraine, including today’s bombing near Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial," the White House says. — PolitiTweet.org

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The White House says the call lasted 30 minutes. No further details yet. — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden speaks with President Zelensky again, hours after Moscow hit Kharkiv with another strike. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mchancecnn: As #russia is poised to attack #kyiv, i spoke with #ukraine president #Zelenskyy in his bunker. Watch #cnn for more https:/… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @idreesali114: U.S. believes Russia's main advance on Kyiv has had no appreciable movement in last 24 hours, U.S. official says. — PolitiTweet.org

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The IEA agrees in a meeting chaired by Energy Secretary Granholm to release 60 million barrels of oil from the emergency reserves "to send a unified and strong message to global oil markets that there will be no shortfall as a result of Russia’s invasion." https://t.co/YxtUo17nyx — PolitiTweet.org

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"One can reasonably ask if a UN member state that tries to take over another UN member state, while committing horrific human rights abuses and causing massive humanitarian suffering should be allowed to remain on this Council," Secretary Blinken says to UN Human Rights Council. — PolitiTweet.org

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"We have a desire to see our children alive," Ukrainian President Zelensky says in address to European Parliament. "I think it's a fair one." https://t.co/GewhHfx25J — PolitiTweet.org

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“Kharkiv and Kyiv are currently the most important targets for Russia,” Ukrainian President Zelensky says. “Terror is meant to break us, to break our resistance. They are heading to our capital, as well as to Kharkiv.” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CNN: The President hoped to spark a political reset at home with his first State of the Union address. A war in Europe changed those pl… — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the new satellite images from Maxar showing the Russian military convoy that’s reached the outskirts of Kyiv, longer than previously measured & now believed to be 40+ miles long. Maxar says it’s made up of armored vehicles, tanks, towed artillery and other vehicles. https://t.co/0iOg3IqPWA — PolitiTweet.org