Russia has begun a full-scale invasion in Ukraine [READ STAFF POSTS]

[vestan]

Advisor to Ukraine Interior Ministry: "Invasion has begun"

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Statement from the advisor is directly from CNN, these are cruise missile strikes from Russia on Ukrainian military command centres. Explosions heard in Kyiv are coming from the international airport. I'll keep this thread updated as more news comes in, this is a developing situation.

• UPDATE (24/02): State border of Ukraine was attacked by Russian troops from Russia and Belarus at about 5am. Attacks on border units, border patrols and checkpoints are carried out with the use of artillery, heavy equipment and small arms.
• UPDATE 2 (24/02): AP: Ukraine says it has lost control of the Chernobyl nuclear site after a fierce battle with Russian troops
• UPDATE 3 (24/02): Biden imposes additional sanctions on Russian banks and businesses
• UPDATE 4 (25/02): NATO Response Force activated for first time ever in response to Russian invasion of Ukraine
• UPDATE 5 (26/02): Russia is spinning slow advance as pause for negotiations, NATO official says
• UPDATE 6 (26/02): U.S., UK, Europe, Canada block Russian access to SWIFT
• UPDATE 7 (27/02): Belarus will commit air and ground forces to Russia's war on Ukraine, in the next 24 hours
• UPDATE 8 (27/02): Russian convoy of ground forces, tanks moving toward Kyiv
• UPDATE 9 (28/02): Russian military convoy has advanced from Ivankiv to outskirts of Kyiv, satellite images show
• UPDATE 10 (01/03): At least 10 dead and 35 injured in Kharkiv strike as search continues, says Ukrainian official
• UPDATE 11 (01/03): Kyiv mayor says the "enemy is on the outskirts" of the Ukrainian capital
• UPDATE 12 (02/03): Russia's bombardment of Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv leaves 21 dead
• UPDATE 13 (02/03): Second round of Russia-Ukraine talks to take place today, according to Ukrainian presidential aide
• UPDATE 14 (02/03): Kherson falls as Russia Strikes More Civilian Targets
• UPDATE 15 (04/03): Fire breaks out at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, mayor says
• UPDATE 16 (06/03): Blinken says NATO countries have "green light" to send fighter jets to Ukraine
• UPDATE 17 (10/03): Three people including a child dead as maternity hospital hit by Russian air strike
• UPDATE 18 (10/03): Russia admits firing thermobaric vacuum weapons in Ukraine
• UPDATE 19 (14/03): 2,000 people dead since Mariupol siege, ICRC warns Ukraine's Mariupol faces 'worst-case scenario'
• UPDATE 20 (18/03): Russia attacks theatre sheltering civilians, Ukraine says
• UPDATE 21 (19/03): Russians push deeper into port city of Mariupol as locals plead for help: "Children, elderly people are dying"
• UPDATE 22 (26/03): Biden offers further military support to Ukraine as Russian troops falter
• UPDATE 23 (31/03): Russia launches new attacks after peace promise
• UPDATE 24 (04/04): 'They were all shot': Russia accused of war crimes as Bucha reveals horror of invasion
• UPDATE 25 (12/04): Report of Mariupol chemical attack sparks US, UK concern
• UPDATE 26 (12/04): Russia warns Sweden and Finland against Nato membership
• UPDATE 27 (15/04): Russian warship Moskva sinks in Black Sea
• UPDATE 28 (09/05): 60 people killed after bomb hits school, Zelensky says
• UPDATE 29 (10/09): Kharkiv offensive: Russia surprised as Ukraine takes several towns
• UPDATE 30 (11/09): Kharkiv offensive: Ukrainian army says it has tripled retaken area
• UPDATE 31 (14/09): Ukraine takes control of entire Kharkiv region and towns seized at onset of Russian invasion
• UPDATE 32 (21/09): Putin drafts up to 300,000 reservists, backs annexation amid war losses
• UPDATE 33 (01/10): Russian troops forced out of eastern town Lyman
• UPDATE 34 (08/10): Expolosion on 12-Mile Crimea Bridge Kills 3
• UPDATE 35 (10/10): Missiles strike cities across Ukraine with central Kyiv hit
• UPDATE 36 (09/11): Russian troops retreat from Kherson in new blow to Putin
• UPDATE 37 (15/11): Russian missiles pound major cities days after Kherson pull-out
• UPDATE 38 (10/12): Russia grinds on in eastern Ukraine; Bakhmut 'destroyed'
• UPDATE 39 (16/12): Russia launches another major missile attack on Ukraine
• UPDATE 40 (11/01): Fighting rages over Soledar despite Wagner's claim of control
• UPDATE 41 (15/01): Deaths from strike on Ukraine apartment tower rise to 23
• UPDATE 42 (18/01): Ukraine's interior ministry leadership killed in helicopter crash
• UPDATE 43 (25/01): European allies will send about 80 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine
• UPDATE 44 (01/02): Ukraine to receive 120-140 tanks in 'first wave' of deliveries
• UPDATE 45 (10/02): Russian missile attack on Ukraine crosses Moldova
• UPDATE 46 (20/02): Biden visits Zelensky in Kyiv and says Putin 'dead wrong' on Ukraine war
• UPDATE 47 (06/04): Putin 'dismisses top general amid Ukraine failures'

Spoiler: Weekly Summaries

What happened in Week 11 of Russia’s attack on Ukraine: Mariupol evacuees, EU oil embargo

Civilian evacuees made their way to safety from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol to the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia. The European Union pro...

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What happened in Week 10 of Russia’s attack on Ukraine: Russia threatens escalation

Russia warned the West against provoking a Third World War if leaders continue to intervene in Ukraine, while top officials from the U.S. and the United Nati...

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What happened in Ukraine in Week 9 of Russia's assault: battle for Mariupol, fighting in east

WARNING: This video contains graphic images of violence and disturbing details of death.Russia proclaimed a new phase of the war has begun, as Ukraine report...

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What happened in Week 8 of Russia’s assault on Ukraine: Surrender claims, war crime investigation

WARNING: This video contains graphic images of death and descriptions of violence at 1:24, 1:40 and 5:41.Russia claims Ukrainian forces have surrendered Mari...

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What happened in Week 7 of Russia’s assault on Ukraine: Bucha killings, rail station attack

This video contains graphic images that show bodies of the dead and descriptions of violence at 0:33, 1:18 - 2:35, 3:52 - 4:13 and 6:46 - 7:31.Gruesome scene...

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What happened in Week 6 of Russia’s assault on Ukraine: Peace talks, Mariupol evacuation attempt

WARNING: This video contains graphic images of death and severe injury.Russia’s vow to scale down its military activity near Kyiv was met with skepticism, an...

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What happened in Week 5 of Russia’s assault: Ukraine rejects demand to surrender, NATO summit

WARNING: This video contains graphic images of death and severe injury at 1:02, 1:29.Ukraine rejected Russia's demand to surrender Mariupol in exchange for s...

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What happened in Week 4 of Russia’s assault: Mariupol theatre blast, airstrikes across Ukraine

WARNING: This video contains graphic images of death and severe injury at 0:34 to 0:54, from 3:30 to 3:42, and at 5:45.A Mariupol theatre was bombed, trappin...

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What happened in Week 3 of Russia’s assault in Ukraine: Mariupol hospital bombed, Kyiv tensions rise

WARNING: This video contains graphic images at 6:19.A Russian airstrike devastated a maternity hospital in Mariupol, and millions flee as Russia closes in on...

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Russia attacks Ukraine as defiant Putin warns US, NATO

Russian troops have launched their anticipated attack on Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin has cast aside international condemnation and sanctions, warning other countries that any attempt to interfere would lead to “consequences you have never seen.”

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Russian troops launched their anticipated attack on Ukraine on Thursday, as President Vladimir Putin cast aside international condemnation and sanctions, warning other countries that any attempt to interfere would lead to "consequences you have never seen."

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Big explosions were heard before dawn in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odessa as world leaders decried the start of an Russian invasion that could cause massive casualties and topple Ukraine's democratically elected government.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy introduced martial law, saying Russia has targeted Ukraine's military infrastructure and explosions are heard across the country. Zelenskyy said he had just talked to President Joe Biden and the U.S. was rallying international support for Ukraine. He urged Ukrainians to stay home and not to panic

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The Russian military said it has struck Ukrainian air bases and other military assets and hasn't targeted populated areas. The Russian Defense Ministry statement said the military is using precision weapons to target Ukrainian air bases, air defense assets and other military infrastructure. It claimed that "there is no threat to civilian population."

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Video: Video of Large Explosions Near Kharkiv, Ukraine

Minutes after President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in eastern Ukraine, explosions were visible near the city of Kharkiv.

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This map shows where explosions have been reported

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine early Thursday, and Ukraine's Interior Ministry has said Russia's "invasion has begun" with missile strikes on Kyiv. Follow here for the latest updates.

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Kyiv: CNN reporters in Ukraine's capital heard explosions from the east in the direction of the city's international airport. Social media users reported hearing several explosions in the Boryspil area to the east of the capital, where the international airport is located about 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the city. CNN has not confirmed that the airport has been targeted.

Kharkiv: A CNN team in Ukraine's second biggest city, in the northeast of the country, heard a "steady stream of loud explosions."
Kramatorsk: Two people in the eastern city, located about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of separatist-held Donetsk, told CNN they heard at least two massive explosions.

Dnipro: A resident of the central city told CNN they had heard "a few explosions."

Mariupol: Two residents told CNN they heard explosions east of the city, which is located in the southeast of the country.

Odessa: A CNN team in the Black Sea port city heard two groups of explosions about 20 minutes apart.

Zaporizhzhia: A CNN team in the southeastern city said they heard at at least one very distant explosion.

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[darkwing]

unity with Ukraine please

 

[mbpm]

How far will this go?

 

[purseowner]

Horrific

 

[spookyduzt]

Stop or we'll say stop again.

 

[jakeh111]

Christ.

 

[Earthboundstarman]

Someone need to act to bring down this monster from the inside if possible.

 

[darkwing]

How far will this go?

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until Ukraine is conquered by Russia fully it seems, no puppet government

 

[Kard8p3]

I hope hell is real so Putin can suffer for eternity, that piece of shit, alongside anyone who enables him.

 

[DSN2K]

oh god :(

 

[Wolf]

This is both heartbreaking and infuriating.

I don't see how this ends without giving Putin what he wants or all out war.

Heart is with Ukraine right now.

 

[steejee]

Godspeed, Ukranians.

 

[Replicant]

Humans are garbage. The fact the Putin has been allowed to live is crazy. How has someone internally in Russia not taken the bastard out yet? Not one person in Russian government willing to risk it all to avoid war?

 

[Disco Infernal]

How far will this go?

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Initially it'll go two to three days and Kiev will fall.

 

[yogurt]

Hell is too good for Putin. Soulless monster.

 

[Asator]

It was only a matter of time but still, fuck putin. History will associate his legacy with infamy.

Good luck to Ukraine. I hope they manage to make the war so painful for Russia that they won't be able to accomplish their objectives.

 

[III-V]

Tragic

 

[KillLaCam]

I think because they're not in NATO that Putin is gonna get what he wants, sadly.

 

[TorianElecdra]

Oh no...my friends...

 

[vestan]

Ukrainian ambassador at the UNSC is live now. He sounds speechless, this is painful to watch.

 

[infinitebento]

this is fucking awful

 

[Zoph]

The only way out of this is if the Russian Federation collapses under the weight of their war debt, I fear. Whatever world order comes out of that won't be pretty either. Bad times all around.

 

[LiK]

Stay safe my Ukrainian buddies~

 

[Deleted member 17990]

Prayers to Ukraine :(

 

[GillianSeed79]

Awful. Fuck Putin. He probably won't even stop with Ukraine. He wants the old USSR back. China is 100 percent going to invade Taiwan too.

 

[anexanhume]

"Denazify"

 

[mugurumakensei]

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Latter part sounds like genocide with justification by saying they're Nazis

 

[Vibranium]

Fuck Putin and thoughts and love to Ukranians. I hope they make it tough on Russia, even if the outcome is bleak.

 

[El Bombastico]

"Denazify"

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Ah, so Putin is going with "Ukrainians are Nazis." That's I why I saw so many people parroting that bullshit...

 

[Doggg]

Madness...

 

[EVA UNIT 01]

Ukrainian ambassador at the UNSC is live now. He sounds speechless, this is painful to watch.

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Link?

 

[Hasseigaku]

There's so much blood on so many hands over this.

Hope the oil was worth it

 

[kmfdmpig]

Latter part sounds like genocide with justification by saying they're Nazis

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Just like shitheads around the world (including on Era) said.
I'm wishing the best for the Ukrainian people and hope that Russian planes get shot down and tanks are left burninf husks.

 

[Tfritz]

perhaps he should start with denazifying his own country first

 

[vestan]

Link?

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[loco]

Being serious here... Is Biden commenting on things over the past few days helping or just hot air to pacify critics? Feels weird hearing him make bold statements and everyone on my Facebook feed is congratulating him while this happening right now.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Fuck me.



Fuck me.

 

[chainlinkspiral]

Stay safe Ukraine. And shame on all the posters here who downplayed and/or played the fools for the Putin regime and his cronies. You were seen.

 

[GazRB]

Seems like they aren't occupying and more toppling the existing government and setting a new one up. Then it won't be "occupying" because the new government will "welcome" them.

 

[vestan]

Minister of Foreign Affairs:

 

[Deleted member 93062]

Being serious here... Is Biden commenting on things over the past few days helping or just hot air to pacify critics? Feels weird hearing him make bold statements and everyone on my Facebook feed is congratulating him while this happening right now.

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They've sanctioned many people in Russia including Putin's family. He's going to give a speech tomorrow after the news tonight. What do people want him to do?

 

[kmfdmpig]

perhaps he should start with denazifying his own country first

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Yup, you can't seriously talk about denzifaction while using the Wagner group, whose leader has Nazi tats.

 

[LiK]

Being serious here... Is Biden commenting on things over the past few days helping or just hot air to pacify critics? Feels weird hearing him make bold statements and everyone on my Facebook feed is congratulating him while this happening right now.

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news say Biden and allies have an official response soon.

 

[Asator]

Stay safe Ukraine. And shame on all the posters here who downplayed and/or played the fools for the Putin regime and his cronies. You were seen.

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Oh yeah, fuck those dumbasses too. And unlike Russians who are under state propaganda, these people weren't. They had access to all the facts and still sided with putin. Fuck them all.

 

[UberTag]

With no further path for deterrence or deescalation, every feasible sanction that has been entertained against Russia needs to be enacted swiftly and without delay. Unfortunately this will come at the expense of the impoverished Russian populace. There will be unfathomable victims across Ukraine as a result of Putin's actions tonight. He will rightfully condemned by any decent human being for all time.

We can only hope his imperialistic aims end here and he doesn't test the resolve of the global community by attacking a NATO nation directly.

I said earlier this afternoon, "When the autocratic despots decide to come for me, I hope I show as much poise, dignity and strength of character as the Ukrainian people have shown the world this week." Their resolve under these arduous circumstances... and the strife they've had to endure since the opening salvos of this war in 2014, under Yanukovych's unjust rule, under the Soviet Union and after Chernobyl has been nothing short of remarkable. My deepest and most sincere condolences go out to the people of Ukraine across the globe and their families and loved ones.

One thing I will reiterate is this... our elected officials may need to remain diplomatic with Russia still but the rest of us do not. I will not forgive Putin and his administration and those that enabled him and praised him until the day I leave this Earth. I will not condemn the Russian people as a whole and I urge the rest of you do not as well. They live under a tyrant and are powerless to do anything to impede his will and will remain as such until he is dead.

Anyone that decides to exploit this opportunity to "own the Libs" or gaslight their respective populaces for political aims can go fuck themselves. There is no forgiving this. There is no justifying this. There shall be no downplaying this. And there shall be no forgiving Putin until he is gone. Period.

 

[Addie]

Can we merge this thread with the other one? I know it's new news, new thread, but the other thread's still rolling.

 

[vestan]

CNN correspondant in Odessa: 3-4 blasts in the last half hour, distant from the city centre

 

[Kernel]

Historian with an ominous statement.

 

[Pikachu]

i hate moving threads mid-crisis, i don't think it's a good idea unless you quickly lock the old one

edit: ok they locked it

 

[Cheesecakebobby]

From what I've been told by people in/ from the region there actually are proper neo-Nazis forming the National Guard in Ukraine (e.g. Azov Battalion), but if Putin actually gave a shit about fascist ideologies he would start by cleaning house. No excuse for invading, the real motivations for which are painfully obvious to everyone.