As tensions between Russia and Ukraine reached a boiling point leading to new financial sanctions against Moscow, local Ukrainians are asking elected leaders to help get their families out before the country is taken over by Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signing a decree recognizing independence for Donetsk and Luhansk, two Ukrainian regions at the center of an ongoing conflict between the two Eastern European nations.
The U.S. and its allies calling the move a dramatic escalation and a pretext to a larger scale invasion."For him, his main mission in office is to restore what he regards, what he is now calling, historic Russia. And that means taking over Ukraine," said Steven Fish. Fish is a professor of political science at UC Berkeley, who has studied authoritarianism and post-communist countries.
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