俄罗斯军方发动了一场令人担忧已久的侵略关于乌克兰周四早些时候，不顾警告，从多个方向攻击其前苏联邻国可怕的后果从美国和国际社会。
周四的袭击发生在该地区紧张局势持续升级数周之后。在周一长达一小时的激烈演讲中，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京宣布承认乌克兰东部顿巴斯地区两个俄罗斯支持的分离主义地区独立:自称的顿涅茨克和卢甘斯克人民共和国。
俄罗斯指责乌克兰加剧了危机，并重申了对北约的要求，即乌克兰承诺永远不加入跨大西洋防务联盟。
Meta扰乱了2个针对乌克兰的社交媒体错误信息活动
社交网络母公司Meta的两名高级领导人表示，脸书上周末发现并禁用了两个利用俄乌紧张局势的社交媒体错误信息活动。
威胁破坏主任大卫·阿格诺维奇周日晚上告诉记者，Meta的安全团队挫败的一次行动涉及大约40个被描述为“不真实”的账户，其中一些账户的个人资料照片被怀疑是人工生成的。Meta的员工说，这些虚构的角色在互联网上运作，包括Twitter、YouTube、Telegram和两家俄罗斯社交媒体网络。
该行动还包括类似新闻媒体的虚假网站，声称总部设在基辅，网站背后的人伪装成新闻编辑和专家来源。这与之前脸书在2020年4月发现并采取的行动有关。当时，该活动被发现来自俄罗斯、乌克兰顿巴斯地区和克里米亚的两家媒体机构。
另一项行动涉及专门针对属于乌克兰军方成员、政治家和一名记者的脸书账户。这些档案被用来分享YouTube视频，这些视频将乌克兰人描绘成软弱的人，并在账户被泄露后向俄罗斯投降。Meta表示，这可能是通过个人电子邮件完成的。
一段视频似乎显示，乌克兰士兵从一片森林中走出来，放弃了一面白旗。
Meta员工没有透露被入侵账户的总数，只是称之为“少数”出于隐私考虑，他们也没有透露账户背后的名字。
本周早些时候，俄罗斯官方媒体被禁止在该平台上投放广告或盈利。
在回应要求Meta关闭脸书和Instagram的呼吁时，全球事务副总裁Nick Clegg表示，该公司不想限制为抗议和组织反战的俄罗斯人提供服务。
克莱格周日在推特上说:“俄罗斯政府已经在遏制我们的平台，以阻止这些活动。”“我们相信关闭我们的服务会在关键时刻让重要的表达沉默。”
数百名在白宫外示威的乌克兰大使
周日，数百名示威者聚集在白宫外，在俄罗斯军队的攻击下表达对乌克兰的支持。
乌克兰驻美国大使奥克萨娜·马尔卡罗娃(Oksana Markarova)表示，此时此刻她“没有其他地方可去”。数百面乌克兰国旗被示威者飘扬，他们唱着歌，呼喊着他们对被轰炸的东欧国家的支持。
"我们不准备放弃我们的自由梦想，我们也不准备投降。我对普京先生没有什么可说的，但对俄罗斯人民——你知道，现在是俄罗斯人民站出来说出来的时候了，如果他们不想成为这些战争罪行的帮凶，因为否则他们就像他们的领导人一样有罪，他们下令并执行了这场野蛮的袭击，并在21世纪在欧洲中部发动了战争。"
与妻子一起参加集会的俄罗斯男子米沙·卡什列夫(Misha Kashlev)表示，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京周围的人需要采取行动，阻止这位领导人造成更多伤害。
“我认为你现在有最后的机会采取一些行动来阻止这一点，因为你的领导人不能，”卡什列夫说。“除了试图杀死整个世界，他什么也做不了。所以拜托，别说了。阻止你的领导采取一些不可逆转的行动。”
一名乌克兰妇女奥克萨娜·丘奇瓦拉(Oksana Chuchvara)在谈到她的妹妹时哭了，她正躲在一个没有任何物资的地下室里，她还谈到了在暴力中死去的乌克兰儿童。
丘奇瓦拉担心普京无法被阻止，称他为“魔鬼”。
“这很令人难过，”她说。“就像，就像希特勒什么的。”
马尔卡罗娃后来表达了人群的情绪，他说，“只是为乌克兰祈祷，支持我们。”
鲍里斯·约翰逊批准数百万额外援助，欢迎乌克兰难民
英国首相鲍里斯·约翰逊的办公室宣布将提供4000万英镑(近5350万美元)的援助，“为乌克兰提供重要的医疗用品和其他帮助。”
根据总理办公室的说法，这是今年迄今为止向乌克兰提供的1亿英镑(超过1.33亿美元)援助的补充。
约翰逊的办公室还表示，“任何在英国定居的人都可以带他们的乌克兰直系亲属来这里与他们团聚。”
该办公室在一份声明中说:“这将有利于成千上万的人，他们此刻正对自己的未来做出绝望的选择。”。
乌克兰官员称，352名平民死亡，包括14名儿童
乌克兰内务部发布了一个更新死亡或受伤的平民人数。
据该机构称，截至周日晚上，已有352人遇难，其中包括14名儿童。
Visar Kryeziu/AP
2022年2月26日，波兰梅迪卡边境，乌克兰难民在团聚时哭泣。
有1 684名受伤的平民，其中116名是儿童。
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Meta disrupts 2 social media misinformation campaigns
Russia's military launched a long-fearedinvasionofUkraineearly Thursday, attacking its ex-Soviet neighbor from multiple directions despite warnings ofdire consequencesfromthe United Statesand the international community.
Thursday's attacks followed weeks of escalating tensions in the region. In a fiery, hourlong speech on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he wasrecognizingthe independence of two Russia-backed separatist areas in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region: the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Russia has blamed Ukraine for stoking the crisis and reiterated its demands to NATO that Ukraine pledges to never join the transatlantic defense alliance.
Meta disrupts 2 social media misinformation campaigns targeting Ukraine
Two social media misinformation campaigns found to be exploiting tensions in Russia and Ukraine were identified and disabled on Facebook over the weekend, according to two senior leaders at the social network's parent company Meta.
One operation thwarted by Meta's security team involved about 40 accounts described as "inauthentic," some with profile pictures suspected to have been generated artificially, Threat Disruption Director David Agranovich told reporters Sunday night. The fictitious personas operated across the internet, Meta employees said, including on Twitter, YouTube, Telegram and two Russian social media networks.
The operation also included fake websites resembling news outlets that claimed to be based in Kyiv, with the people behind the sites posing as news editors and expert sources. It was connected to a campaign previously detected and taken down by Facebook in April 2020. At the time, the activity was found to have come from Russia, the Donbass region of Ukraine and two media organizations in Crimea.
Another operation involved the specific targeting of Facebook accounts belonging to members of the Ukrainian military, as well as politicians and a journalist. The profiles were used to share YouTube videos portraying Ukrainians as weak and surrendering to Russia after the accounts were compromised, which Meta said was likely done through personal email.
One video appeared to show Ukrainian soldiers coming out of a forest waiving a white flag.
The Meta employees did not disclose the total number of compromised accounts, only referring to it as "a handful." They also did not reveal the names behind the accounts, citing privacy concerns.
Earlier this week, Russian state media was barred from running ads or monetizing the platform.
In response to calls for Meta to shutdown Facebook and Instagram, Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said the company does not want to restrict services for Russians who are protesting and organizing against the war.
"The Russian Government is already throttling our platform to prevent these activities," Clegg said in tweet Sunday. "We believe turning off our services would silence important expression at a crucial time."
Ukrainian ambassador among hundreds demonstrating outside White House
Hundreds of demonstrators assembled outside the White House on Sunday to express support for Ukraine amid attacks from Russian forces.
Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., said there was "no other place" she could be in this moment. Hundreds of Ukrainian flags were flown by demonstrators, who were singing and chanting their support for the bombarded eastern European nation.
"We're not ready to give up our dreams of freedom and we're not ready to surrender," Markarova said. "I don't have anything to say for Mr. Putin, but to the Russian people -- you know, this is time for the Russian people, if they don't want to be accomplices to these war crimes, to stand up and say it, because otherwise they are as guilty as their leadership who ordered and executed this brutal attack and started war in the 21st century in the middle of Europe."
Misha Kashlev, a Russian man who attended the rally with his wife, said those around Russian President Vladimir Putin need to act to stop the leader from causing more harm.
"I think you have a last chance now to take some action to stop this because your leader cannot," Kashlev said. "He is incapable of doing anything but trying to kill the entire world. So please, stop it. Stop your leader from taking some irreversible action."
A Ukrainian woman, Oksana Chuchvara, cried as she spoke of her sister, who is hiding in a basement shelter without supplies, as well as the children who are dying in Ukraine amid the violence.
Chuchvara fears Putin cannot be stopped, describing him as “the devil.”
"It's very sad,” she said. “It's like, like Hitler or something.”
Markarova later expressed the sentiment of the crowd, saying, “Just pray for Ukraine and support us."
Boris Johnson OKs millions of additional aid, welcomes Ukrainian refugees
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office announced it will send 40 million pounds (nearly $53.5 million) in aid to "provide vital medical supplies and other help to Ukraine."
This is in addition to 100 million pounds (over $133 million) in aid given to Ukraine so far this year, according to the prime minister's office.
Johnson's office also said "any person settled in the U.K. will be able to bring their Ukrainian immediate family members to join them here."
"This will benefit many thousands of people who at this moment are making desperate choices about their future," the office said in a statement.
352 civilians dead, including 14 children, Ukrainian officials say
Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairsreleased an updateon the number of civilians who have been killed or wounded.
As of Sunday evening, 352 people have been killed, including 14 children, according to the agency.
There are 1,684 wounded civilians, 116 of which are children.
