Updated On: 24 February, 2022 06:58 PM IST | Mumbai | ANI
Putin announced the military operation via televised speech. Defending its military action, Russia said the root of "today`s crisis around Ukraine is the actions of Ukraine itself" and the Russian operation is aimed to protect residents in the eastern part of the country

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After Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday, several celebrities took to social media to express their views about the
ongoing crisis.
In a tweet, actor Tillotama Shome wrote that "nothing can be uglier than war." "I worry incessantly for my mother who is battling cancer in the midst of covid. But when I think of the families and cancer patients in the middle of war, my brain just ceases to comprehend. Nothing absolutely nothing is uglier than war. Mothers don`t give life for war," she tweeted.