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Twelve hours after Russia launched a full-scale assault on Ukraine, the US responded by implementing additional sanctions.
"Putin chose this war, and now he and his country will bear the consequences,'' US President Joe Biden says, describing the invasion as a premeditated attack without provocation, justification and necessity.