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At 10 p.m. in Moscow on Monday, Russian state television interrupted its regular programming to air an address from President Vladimir V. Putin about the Ukraine crisis.
We look back on what Mr. Putin’s hourlong speech — remarkable for his overt display of emotion and grievance — revealed about his rationale for invading.
On today’s episode
Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times.
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Mr. Putin’s speech sounded like a call to war, the culmination of a propaganda barrage orchestrated by Russian state media in recent days.
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The United States and its allies swiftly imposed economic sanctions on Russia for what President Biden denounced as the beginning of an “invasion of Ukraine.”
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Anton Troianovski contributed reporting.
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