latest with living with covid, ending restrictions just as the more contagious, and potentially more deadly subvariant of omicron takes hold. welcome, everyone. the russian president, vladimir putin, has now ordered troops into parts of eastern ukraine controlled by russian-backed separatists. the u.s. says russian troops could mobilize within hours. and the state department is moving diplomats in western ukraine, over the border to poland for the night. mr. putin's deployment order came, just hours after he signed a decree recognizing those breakaway regions as independent republics. separatists there have long had backing from the kremlin. u.s., ukrainian, and nato officials say moscow supplies