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Putin orders Russian nuclear deterrence forces on high alert; Ukraine and Russia delegations to meet.

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• Despite the escalation, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said representatives for Ukraine and Russia have agreed to meet on the Ukraine-Belarus border “with no preconditions.”

• Meanwhile, the Russian advance into Ukraine continues. Russian military vehicles entered Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv with reports of fighting taking place and residents being warned to stay in shelters.

• The capital of Kyiv remained under Ukrainian control, with a key official in Kyiv’s city administration asserting that “the capital is completely controlled by the Ukrainian army and defense.”

• The U.N.’s top court confirmed Sunday that Ukraine has filed a case against Russia, accusing Moscow of planning acts of genocide against the nation.

• Ukraine is asking the International Court of Justice, located in The Hague, to order “provisional measures” to halt Russia’s invasion on the Eastern European nation. Ukraine is also seeking reparations from Russia, the court said.

• Ukraine’s case said Russia launched its attack based on false pretenses that the country was committing its own acts of genocide in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of eastern Ukraine.

• “Ukraine ‘emphatically denies’ that such genocide has occurred and states that it submitted the application ‘to establish that Russia has no lawful basis to take action in and against Ukraine for the purpose of preventing and punishing any purported genocide,’” the court said in a press release