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Prioritize Peace and Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine Over Weapons, Say Analysts
Not only is humanitarian aid urgently needed, but emphasizing military aid could provoke further escalation.
![A Ukrainian Military Forces serviceman stands in front of tanks of the 92nd separate mechanized brigade of Ukrainian Armed Forces, parked in their base near Klugino-Bashkirivka village, in the Kharkiv region on January 31, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0302-ukraine-tanks-400x300.jpg)
Arms Industry Sees Ukraine Conflict as an Opportunity, Not a Crisis
As a self-selecting elite propounds NATO expansion, military buildup and imperialism, we must embrace peace.
![President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the East Room of the White House on February 24, 2022, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0301-joe-biden-400x300.jpg)
Regardless of What Biden Says, the Real State of the Union Is Perilous
We're a country on the brink. Tonight, Biden has his work cut out for him.
![Reckless Militarization Led to This War. All Sides Must Recommit to Peace](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/SEG1-latam-protest-400x300.jpg)
Ukrainian Activist Condemns Russia’s Violence and Ukraine’s Ban on Men Fleeing
A Ukrainian peace activist urges diplomacy, an end to the Russian invasion and the dissolution of NATO.
![200 U.S. soldiers, who are being transferred to the 7th Army Training Command in Grafenwöhr, Germany, land in Nuremberg on March 1, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0301-us-soldiers-400x300.jpg)
Noam Chomsky: US Military Escalation Against Russia Would Have No Victors
Russia’s invasion is a war crime, Chomsky says, but the U.S. shouldn’t escalate this conflict between nuclear powers.
![Ambassadors and diplomats walkout while Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addresses the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva with a prerecorded video message on March 1, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0301-russia-walkout-400x300.jpg)
UN Diplomats Walk Out as Russian Foreign Minister Addresses Human Rights Council
To protest Moscow's war on Ukraine, roughly 100 diplomats from countries around the globe left the conference hall.
![Activists dressed in chemical protection costumes hold a banner reading "What's in the Transneft pipeline?," during a protest demanding an international audit of Russian oil extraction near the Embassy of Germany in Kiev, Ukraine, on May 13 2019.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/GettyImages-1143634057-400x300.jpg)
Activists Push Biden to Expand Renewables for Energy Independence From Russia
Activists are seizing on this week’s IPCC report to push back against the oil lobby’s calls for increased fracking.
![This general view shows the damaged local city hall of Kharkiv on March 1, 2022, destroyed as a result of Russian troop shelling.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0301-ukraine-mi-400x300.jpg)
Russian Missile Strikes Main Square of Ukraine’s Second-Largest City
"Nightmare" attack on Kharkiv signals intensification of Russian invasion.
![Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders speaks during a committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office building on February 17, 2022, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/2022_0228-bernie-sanders-400x300.jpg)
Sanders Urges Tax on Windfall Oil Profits as Companies Exploit Ukraine Crisis
Gas prices were already soaring before Putin’s invasion as Big Oil rakes in record profits.
![A UN Security Council meeting about Ukraine is held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City on February 25, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/2022_0228-united-nations-400x300.jpg)
Here’s an Action the UN General Assembly Can Take Against Russia’s Invasion
Instead of sanctions and escalation, we need UN-led diplomacy.