This is a matter of national life or death. Her final words were: "I respectfully urge the court to issue your order with utmost urgency. We are in your hands."

I write this with a loud airborne alert in Kyiv, but I don't leave to the shelter. Amazing how quickly people are used to the new danger – I hardly react to sirens unless I hear blasts nearby.  

The sanctions should also target ordinary Russian citizens. Those should suffer. Painfully. Even if goes contrary to the "matrix" of the democratic world. 

What to expect if a major Russian invasion does not occur? What is a red line for tough US sanctions against Russia and Putin?

There is a doubt that Russia is a member of the United Nations at all. European Pravda spoke with Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsa, Ukraine's envoy to the UN.

NATO Compatibility Plan does not contradict the Annual National Programmes; it strengthens and supplements them with important components which ANP currently misses