Michael
Schwirtz, Valerie Hopkins and Andrew E. Kramer
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/24/world/russia-attacks-ukraine
Ukraine’s forces make ‘fierce resistance’ in
Chernobyl zone, officials say.
SLOVYANSK,
Ukraine — On Day 1 of the first major land war in Europe in decades, the
Russian military plunged into Ukraine by land, sea and air, killing dozens of
Ukrainian soldiers, and ominously touching off a pitched battle at the highly
radioactive Chernobyl exclusion zone that risked damaging the cement-encased
nuclear reactor that melted down in 1986.
The day
began before sunrise with the terrifying thud of artillery strikes on airports
and military installations all over Ukraine. And by sunset, Russian special
forces and airborne troops were pushing into the outskirts of the capital,
Kyiv. While the ultimate goal of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his
generals remained unclear, American officials assessed that the end game was
likely the decapitation of Ukraine’s government and the replacement of its
president, Volodymyr Zelensky, with a Russian-controlled puppet regime.
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