Latest reports indicate that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a military operation in eastern Ukraine, February 24, 2022.
According to Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had launched a “full-scale invasion” on Thursday, confirming that explosions have rocked multiple cities around the country.
The explosions began almost immediately after Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine, in a surprise televised address.
Latest update in brief;
- The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says Russia has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and is targeting cities with weapons strikes under the authorization of President Vladimir Putin.
- On Thursday, February 24, 2022, Russian President, Vladimir Putin announce a military operation in Ukraine in a surprised televised address before 6.00 a.m. local time.
- Putin also warned other countries not to interfere with Russia military operation in Ukraine, otherwise inference would lead to consequences they have never seen.
- Explosions were rocked in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa and other Ukrainian cities.
- Interfax Ukraine reported that Russian rocket attacks on military facilities throughout the country, as well as staff and passengers evacuating Kyiv’s Boryspil airport.
- The US President Joe Biden, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg and other international leaders have quickly condemned the attack.
- The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has released an emotional video address early Thursday morning local time, appealing to Russians not to support a possible “major war in Europe.”
- Also notable, the EU on Wednesday, 23, 2022 had imposed sanctions on Russia’s defense minister Sergei Shoigu and other Russian military chiefs as part of measures over Kremlin’s recognition of the two separatist Ukrainian regions as independent.
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