
Moscow claims it is using "high-precision weapons" to deactivate military infrastructure. Putin warns that any intervention by other states will have consequences "which have never been seen"

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1. Smoke pipes at the military airport in Chuguyev near Kharkiv (Ukraine). Russia attacked Ukraine this morning. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced at dawn a special military operation in the separatist region of Donbas, in eastern Ukraine. "The objective of the operation is to protect the people," the president said in a message to the nation.

2. Damage caused to a building in Kiev (Ukraine) after the attack. Just minutes after Putin's speech, several cities in the east of the country were attacked. Explosions were also heard in Kiev. Russian forces have crossed the border to other parts of the country.

3. Military personnel transfer a wounded man after the bombing in Chuhuiv (Ukraine). At least 8 people have died after the attacks, according to Kiev. The offensive, launched in ten regions, has come from Russian territory but also from Belarus.

4. A firefighter searches for civilians in the rubble of an apartment block in Chuhuiv. Ukraine's Interior Ministry has reported that Russian troops have landed in the port city of Odessa and are crossing the border at various points in the country.

5. A Ukrainian military helicopter flies over a gas station on the outskirts of the city of Dnipro. "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has declared a state of war. The army is working. There is no panic. We are strong. We are ready for anything. We will defeat them all," he said.

6. People with bags and suitcases on the subway in Kiev this morning. Ukraine's state emergency service claims the attacks were launched against 10 points in Ukraine, mainly in the east and south of the country.

7. A Ukrainian soldier stands next to an army vehicle on a street in Kramatosrk, in eastern Ukraine. The government has confirmed that Russian troops are also penetrating through the country's northeastern borders, specifically through the Chernihiv region, on the border with Belarus.

8. Hundreds of blocked vehicles try to leave the city of Kiev. Putin, who has been arguing for months that the Kiev regime is a Nazi regime that discriminates against Russian speakers and that citizens of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions are suffering "genocide," said in a statement that it was military aggression to "protect" citizens.

9. Bombed military installations in Mariupol (Ukraine). Russia's Defense Ministry claims it is using "high-precision weapons" to deactivate military infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airports and Ukrainian military aircraft, according to Russia's state-run RIA news agency.