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[0] Early Thursday morning, Russia launched a broad military assault on Ukraine.
[1] In response, President Biden addressed the nation on Thursday, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of being the aggressor and warning that there will be consequences.
[2] What options does the U .S. and its allies have now to deter the aggression?
[3] No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening.
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[19] After weeks of rising tensions in Eastern Europe, Vladimir Putin launched a nationwide invasion of Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday morning.
[20] Here to give us an overview of what happened in the first phase of the attack and the West response, is DailyWire's Ian Howarth in a dramatic 24 hours.
[21] What can you tell us?
[22] Well, there's a lot going on here and things on the ground are changing fast.
[23] As Georgia mentioned, early Thursday, Putin launched what he called a specialized military operation in Ukraine's Dombas region, an area occupied by Russian -backed rebels since the last Russian invasion in 2014.
[24] Putin pledged to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, billing this as a defensive move aimed at preventing supposed acts of genocide in Ukraine.
[25] These are claims he's made before and always without any evidence.
[26] Almost immediately, reports of explosions around the country came streaming in.