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Vladimir Putin has started a full military invasion Ukraine, with Russian troops attacking from the northern border from Belarus, the eastern border with Russia, and to the south from Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula was invaded and annexed by Moscow in 2014.
In Kyivcapital, explosion was heard before dawn on Thursday, and the main roads out of the city were jammed with traffic as residents fled.
Russian forces shelled units in the east of the country and attacked airfields in Kyiv’s airport, Boryspil, Ozerne, Kulbakino, Chuhuiv, Kramatorsk, Chornobaivka with missiles, the armed forces of Ukraine said in a statement. Video of an explosion at a military depot in Kalynivkaa town southwest of Kyiv near a provincial city Vinnytsiawas broadcast on Ukrainian television.
Putin on Tuesday recognition of secessionist governments in Luhansk and Donetsktwo provinces in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, and ordered the Russian army to enter them.
On Thursday morning, Russian incursions showed invasion forces aiming to move south towards Kyiv, encircling Ukraine’s forces to the east and dividing the country from the Russian border to the Sea. Black.
