… an onslaught of Russian tanks and assault vehicles captured on video storming toward the capital, Kyiv, has triggered fears of further bloodshed.
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Ukrainian officials have charged that Russian soldiers have indiscriminately fired on ambulances, kindergartens and residential neighborhoods. At least 353 civilians have been killed in the four days since the invasion began, Ukrainian officials said Sunday.

Just as unnerving for the United States and its allies was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that he had moved his nuclear deterrent forces into alert, heightening worries of nuclear superpowers forced back into brinkmanship.

Putin’s action came as Russia faced an increasingly devastating package of sanctions from the United States and European allies designed to block the Kremlin from its vast currency reserves in the West and sever key Russian banks from SWIFT…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Russia had ambushed cities and slaughtered civilians…

“They are fighting against everything alive,” Zelensky said. “They kill our children, destroy our homes, try to blow up everything…

Also foreboding was word from U.S. officials that Belarus…is preparing to send soldiers into Ukraine as soon as Monday…