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Plus the Logistic Olympics and Lunar New Year begins. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story January 31, 2022 By Remy Tumin Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Monday. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield of the U.S. greets Ukraine's ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, at the U.N. Richard Drew/Associated Press 1. The U.S. and Russia engaged in a public diplomatic brawl at the U.N. Security Council over the Ukraine crisis. "The situation we are facing in Europe is urgent and dangerous," said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador. "Russia's actions strike at the very heart of the U.N. charter." Russia objected to having the meeting at all , calling it "an attempt to mislead the international community" and an example of "megaphone diplomacy." The meeting of 15 nations, requested by the U.S., represented the highest-profile arena for the two powers to sway world opinion over Ukraine. As expected

Plus a powerful nor'easter and the N.F.L. playoffs. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story January 28, 2022 By Remy Tumin Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Friday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley spoke about Ukraine at the Pentagon today. Joshua Roberts/Reuters 1. Russia has deployed enough troops for a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Pentagon said. Russia has assembled more than 100,000 troops at Ukraine's borders , officials said, enough to move throughout the country, far beyond an incursion into the border regions. The forces include combined arms formations, artillery and rockets. "I think you'd have to go back quite a while to the Cold War days to see something of this magnitude," said Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The U.S. has put 8,500 U.S. troops on high alert for possible deployment to Eastern Europe, where most of them would join a NATO rapid respon