* “A genocide.”–How President Joe Biden characterized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
* Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked President Biden to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, a powerful sanction.
* “The city of Mariupol has been wiped off the face of the Earth by the Russian Federation, by those who will never be able to restore it.”–Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
* It’s been a major embarrassment for Russia that its flagship vessel of the Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva, was sunk.
* According to UNICEF, nearly two thirds of all Ukrainian children have been forced from their homes since the start of the Russian invasion.
* S&P Global placed Russia under a “selective default” rating.
* Wouldn’t it speak volumes if Edward Snowden, of leaked-NSA-information infamy, announced that he was leaving Russia as a protest against Vladimir Putin’s unconscionably cruel and tragic invasion of Ukraine. Or is genocide an insufficient reason to leave his Russian safe house?
* NATO expansion? Finland and Sweden could be next up. If that were to happen, Russia would “rebalance the situation,” according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Such euphemistic “rebalancing” could involve moving nuclear weapons near the Baltic Sea.