Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a “special military operation” in Ukraine after months of growing tension between the two countries. Explosions rocked cities across the country, and Russian ground forces are thought to have advanced past the eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Right in the middle of tonight's Bible study on Gog, Magog and World War III, as if on cue, the stunning news broke that Putin had ordered Russian forces to begin bombing the Ukraine capital of Kyiv. Talk about a wake-up call! This is what life is like on the front lines of the end times, and perhaps, on the front lines of WWIII.
"Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you." Habakkuk 1:5 (KJB)
Russia is now committed, and with the global appetite not large enough to stop him, where all this will end is anyone's guess. Certainly Ukraine is only the first step of many in Putin's lust of territorial aggression, and the beginning of the consolation of his power base of a reassembled Soviet Union. Suddenly, everything old is new again.
NTEB RADIO BIBLE STUDY: AS RUSSIA PREPARES TO INVADE UKRAINE, HERE’S EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GOG, MAGOG AND WORLD WAR III
Putin declares ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine as explosions heard in Kyiv, sparking WW3 fears
FROM THE SUN US: Explosions in Ukraine's capital Kyiv have been reported by major outlets including CNN, who shared video of popping noises during live coverage. Other videos were shared on social media of explosions in Kyiv.
Around 11pm UK time Wednesday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Putin refused last-minute talks and said that an offensive against Ukraine had been approved. Zelenskyy pleaded to the people of Russia that only they could stop the invasion in an emotional address.
“You are being told that this is a plan to free the people of Ukraine,” he said while speaking in Russian. “But the Ukrainian people are free.”
He added that there were roughly 200,000 Russian troops gathered on the border.
“Your leadership has approved them to move forward onto the territory of another country,” said Zelenskyy. “This step could become the start of a big war on the European continent.”
US President Joe Biden issued a White House statement following Putin's declaration.
"The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces,” he said.
“President Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that “everything seems to be in place” for a full-scale attack on Ukraine if Russia decided to move forward. Blinken clarified to NBC Nightly News that he can’t “put a date or an exact time on” when Russia will exactly carry out the invasion but said that Russia has “positioned its forces at the final point of readiness across Ukraine’s borders to the north, to the east, to the south.”
“Everything seems to be in place for Russia to engage in a major aggression against Ukraine,” he said.
Blinken’s words came as the United Nations gears up to hold its second emergency session in three days. The council met on Monday night as Russia stayed defiant despite criticism from other members. The council is set to meet again in New York on Wednesday night. READ MORE
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