Readers of hundreds of newspapers across the United States woke up today to versions of the Associated Press story on the Russian invasion of Ukraine that begins just below. ABC News carried the report in full. A second AP story, also beginning below, got less attention on the radio. Next, eight of 12 Popular Resistance-linked offerings for today concern the war and possible consequences. After that, the founder of the rightist Gab social network says Russia is experiencing what he calls “the Gab treatment” by tech giants. Along the same lines, on Global Research a Substack writer sees opportunities in the forced closing of the RT America channel. — MCM

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Putin says Ukraine’s future in doubt as cease-fire continues: Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Ukraine’s statehood is in jeopardy and pinned the blame on that country’s leaders

By Yuras Karamanau | Associated Press

LVIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Saturday that Ukrainian statehood is in jeopardy and likened the West’s sanctions on Russia to “declaring war,” while a promised cease-fire in the besieged port city of Mariupol collapsed amid scenes of terror.

With the Kremlin’s rhetoric growing fiercer and a reprieve from fighting dissolving, Russian troops continued to shell encircled cities and the number of Ukrainians forced from their country grew to 1.4 million. By nighttime Russian forces had intensified their shelling of Mariupol, while dropping powerful bombs on residential areas of Chernihiv, a city north of Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said.

Bereft mothers mourned slain children, wounded soldiers were fitted with tourniquets and doctors worked by the light of their cellphones as bleakness and desperation pervaded. Crowds of men lined up in the capital to join the Ukrainian military. READ MORE . . .