Russia has launched an attack on Ukraine. The attack has started from several directions. According to the Ukrainian Border Guard, Russian forces have infiltrated the border in the regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Luhansk.
Russia has launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine. Several cities have been fired during the morning.
Firefightings and explosions have been heard in the capital, Kiev, Kharkiv, eastern Kramatorsk, Mariupol, Odessa and Shchastia, among others.
In Kiev, the targets have been military targets.
According to the Ukrainian Border Guard, Russian troops have attacked the land in the regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Luhansk.
According to the Ukrainian army, the country has also been attacked by Crimea and Belarus. On the Belarusian side, Ukraine has been fired with artillery. Ukraine has responded to the firing.
Russian troops in Mariupol and Odessa
Russia previously transferred troops to Belarus in the name of a joint military exercise. Kiev is about 75 km from the Belarusian border.
Air alarms have been heard in Kiev and residents have fled the city. People are being evacuated inside Kiev.
Russian troops have been reported to have landed in the port cities of Mariupol and Odessa. In practice, Ukraine no longer has access to the Black Sea.
According to eyewitness data from the news agency Reuters, Ukrainian tanks are moving towards Mariupol.
The Ukrainian army says it fired down five Russian warplanes and one helicopter. The military said the planes were shot down in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. Russia has denied the information.
Russia has taken over two villages
Russia has claimed to have paralyzed Ukraine’s air defense. Russian-backed separatists say they shot down a Ukrainian air force plane in Luhansk, Reuters reports.
According to Ukrainian police, Russian-backed separatist forces have taken over two villages in the Luhansk region.
Ukraine has declared a martial law. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi has called on the world to use all possible sanctions against Russia.
According to Zelensky, the president of Russia Vladimir Putin seeks to destroy Ukraine.
According to Ukraine, at least eight people had died in the Russian shooting by this morning.
The map of the case was corrected at 1:15 p.m. The current name of the Ukrainian city is Dnipro, not Dnepropetrovsk, as previously read on the map.
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