last week, the United States inform this council and the world about what we expected to see unfold. We said that Russia would manufacture or pre pretext for an attack. We have since seen numerous false flag events staged along the line. The line of lines of contact in Donbas. We said Russia would theatrically convened emergency meetings at the highest levels of the Russian government. We all saw this on monday with the state televised Security council meeting held by President Putin, an orchestrated moment in which the Russian government decided to recognize as and I quote, independent states, unquote Sovereign Territory of Ukraine Controlled by Russia's Proxies since 2014. No one could have predicted just how dangerous inciting and far reaching President Putin's speech would be with Putin arguing for taking the world back in time to an era of empires and colonies. Finally, we said the attack would come next, that we could expect communications to be jammed, cyber attacks to shut down key Ukrainian institutions last week. We attributed to Russia denial of service attacks against Ukrainian banks. And we saw similar activity this morning targeting government sites as well. And in the last few hours we have received very concerning reports of destructive malware were placed on hundreds of computers and executed on at least some after that, we said would come the bombs and missiles. The soldiers and the tanks. Already soldiers have been deployed to the occupied region of Ukraine. Ladies and gentlemen, we are here tonight because we believe the rest is imminent now. Over the past few weeks, Russia has called our predictions hysterical. Russia said we were lying. Russia said we were supplying the world with misinformation. Russia's diplomats even laughed in the face of the human suffering. We were sounding the alarm about Russia's attack on Ukraine is tantamount to an attack on the U. N. And every member state in the chamber tonight. I said it in the General Assembly this morning and I'll say it again tonight everyday. Russians should be asking themselves right now how many Russian lives Putin will sacrifice for his cynical ambitions? Responsible Members of the Security Council will stand together and we will stand with Ukraine and we will we will do so despite a reckless, irresponsible permanent Members of the Security Council abusing its powers to attack its neighbor and subvert the U. N. And our international system.