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Thu 24 Feb
2022 05.00 GMTFirst published on Wed 23 Feb 2022 05.14 GMT
- 20m ago Russian troops land in Odessa and Mariupol, Ukraine officials say
- 52m ago Ukraine confirms Russia's 'full-scale invasion'
- 1h ago Russia's UN envoy justifies military action under article 51 of UN charter
- 1h ago Biden says Putin has made 'unprovoked and unjustified' attack
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- 3h ago Ukraine airspace is closed
From 2h ago
03:01
Russian forces will carry out 'special military
operation' in Ukraine, says Putin
Vladimir
Putin has announced that Russia will carry out a “special military operation”
in Ukraine, Reuters reports.
In an
address to the Russian people under way now and coinciding with the United
nations security council meeting, the Russian president also said:
Clashes between Ukrainian and Russian forces are
“inevitable” and “only a question of time”.
Further nato expansion and its use of Ukraine’s
territory are unacceptable
The Russian military operation aims to “protect
people”
Circumstances “demand decisive action from Russia”
Updated at
3.07am GMT
9m ago
04:55
Luke
Harding Luke Harding
The
Guardian’s Luke Harding is in Ukraine where president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is
currently addressing the nation.
Zelenskiy says Russia has carried out missile strikes
on Ukraine infrastructure and on Ukrainian border guards with explosions being
heard in many cities across the country.
He added that he spoken with US president Joe Biden,
and told Ukrainians to stay home and to stay calm: “The army works. I will be
with you all the time. Stay strong. We will win because we are Ukraine. Glory
to Ukraine”
Zelenskiy
also said Ukraine will introduce martial law on all territories of the state,
Reuters reports.
Luke
Harding
(@lukeharding1968)
Ukraine's
operational command says "cruise and ballistic missile strikes are
underway at the control centres in Kyiv"
February
24, 2022
Updated at
5.00am GMT
20m ago
04:44
Russian troops land in Odessa and Mariupol, Ukraine
officials say
Peter
Beaumont Peter Beaumont
Ukrainian
officials say Russian troops have landed in Odessa while others are crossing
the border into Kharkiv.
The
Ukrainian interior ministry made the announcement on Telegram, adding that
rocket attacks are targeting Ukrainian fighter jets at an airport outside Kyiv.
Ukraine’s
state emergency service says attacks have been launched against 10 Ukrainian
regions, primarily in the east and south of the country.
At least
seven “powerful” airstrikes on Vasilkovsky airport outside Kyiv, where
Ukraine’s military fighter bombers are kept, Kyiv command says
Guardian
senior reporter Peter Beaumont tells us if the reports coming in from around
Ukraine are accurate, this is far from a being a limited operation by Russia.
Instead it
looks like military operations of different kinds are being launched in a broad
crescent from Odessa in the south-west along the coast eastwards towards
Mariupol, through to Kharkiv further north and finally Kyiv at the top of the
crescent.
While a lot
of reported attacks so far appear to have involved missile strikes, there are
unconfirmed reports now via Ifax and elsewhere of troops landing in the south
and crossing the border near Kharkiv too.
Michael
Weiss
(@michaeldweiss)
Shelling of
Mariupol. OSINT mavens, have at it. pic.twitter.com/ErUKzaHjy1
February
24, 2022
OSINTtechnical
(@Osinttechnical)
Kharkiv
pic.twitter.com/LfwcNmOhwA
February
24, 2022
Luke
Harding
(@lukeharding1968)
At least
seven "powerful" airstrikes on Vasilkovsky airport outside Kyiv,
where Ukraine's military fighter bombers are kept, Kyiv command says
February
24, 2022
Updated at
4.47am GMT
37m ago
04:27
Ukraine’s deputy interior minister, Anton
Gerashchenko, has also confirmed a Russian invasion has begun.
In a
statement posted to his official Facebook page, the minister said:
The invasion has begun. There have just been
missiles on the military headquarters, airports, military warehouses, near
Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnieper.
Gunfire at
the border is underway. From this day, there is a new geopolitical reality in
the world”
Updated at
4.29am GMT
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40m ago
04:24
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres has
made a direct plea to Russian present Putin, saying: “In the name of humanity
bring your troops back to Russia.”
Guterres,
who has served as secretary-general since 2017, added that today’s actions are
the “saddest moment in my tenure”.
52m ago
04:12
Ukraine confirms Russia's 'full-scale invasion'
Ukraine’s
foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has confirmed Russia’s “full-scale invasion” of
Ukraine.
Putin has
just launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Peaceful Ukrainian cities are
under strikes.
This is a
war of aggression. Ukraine will defend itself and will win. The world can and
must stop Putin. The time to act is now.”
Putin has
just launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Peaceful Ukrainian cities are
under strikes. This is a war of aggression. Ukraine will defend itself and will
win. The world can and must stop Putin. The time to act is now.
February
24, 2022
1h ago
04:01
Russia's UN envoy justifies military action under
article 51 of UN charter
Russia’s
representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, has justified Russia’s
military operations under article 51 of the UN charter, which allows for
“self-defence”.
Nebenzya
defended Russia’s decision to take military action in the Donbas region of
eastern Ukraine during an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council held
just moments earlier.
According
to Reuters, Nebenzya told the United Nations security council of Putin’s
announcement of a special military operation in eastern Ukraine.
The root of
today’s crisis around Ukraine is the actions of Ukraine itself, who for many
years were sabotaging its obligations.”
Nebenzya is
presumably referring to the Minsk agreement.
He also
claimed that the Russian operation aimed to protect residents in the
Russian-backed separatist regions of eastern Ukraine, “who for eight years have
been cowering from Ukraine’s shelling.”
Nebenzya
went on to say that “Ukrainian provocation against those in Donbas not only has
not stopped but has intensified,” which he said prompted separatist leaders in
the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk to request Russian assistance.
Ukraine’s
UN ambassador responded, declaring Russian president Putin declared “a war on
my country”.
Updated at
4.08am GMT
1h ago
03:55
The British ambassador to Ukraine, Melinda Simmons,
has said that a “wholly unprovoked” attack on Ukraine is under way.
“A wholly
unprovoked attack on a peaceful country is unfolding. Horrified,” she said in a
tweet on Thursday morning.
“Just
because you’ve prepared and thought about this possibility for weeks and months
doesn’t mean it isn’t shocking when it actually happens.”
Melinda
Simmons
(@MelSimmonsFCDO)
A wholly
unprovoked attack on a peaceful country 🇺🇦 is unfolding. Horrified. Just
because you’ve prepared and thought about this possibility for weeks and months
doesn’t mean it isn’t shocking when it actually happens.
February
24, 2022
Updated at
4.15am
1h ago
03:38
Biden says Putin has made 'unprovoked and unjustified'
attack
US
president Joe Biden has delivered a statement on Russia’s “unprovoked and
unjustified” attack on Ukraine.
A White
House statement reads:
The prayers
of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an
unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces.
President
Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life
and human suffering.
Russia
alone is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring, and
the United States and its Allies and partners will respond in a united and
decisive way. The world will hold Russia accountable.”
Biden said
he will meet his G7 counterparts in the morning [EST] before speaking to the
American people to announce the “further consequences the United States and our
Allies and partners will impose on Russia for this needless act of aggression”
against Ukraine and global peace and security.
“Jill and I
are praying for the brave and proud people of Ukraine,” Biden added.
The prayers
of the world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an
unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces. President Putin
has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and
human suffering. https://t.co/Q7eUJ0CG3
February
24, 2022
Updated at
3.58am GMT
1h ago
03:36
Peter
Beaumont Peter Beaumont
Here is a snap from the Guardian’s Peter Beaumont
reporting from Lviv in western Ukraine.
After a sleepless night in Ukraine in which many
people here were expecting a Russian attack to begin and remained glued to
their phones throughout the night, reports of explosions have begun coming in
from various cities in the last few minutes. On a live broadcast from Kyiv just
now CNN’s Mathew Chance has described hearing 4-5 loud bangs that he could not
identify.
A report on Ifax also reported gunfire near Kyiv’s
Boryspil airport, again so far unconfirmed as A Nato official told Reuters ban
invasion appeared to be underway.
There were also initial albeit unconfirmed
details coming in of explosions being heard in Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Kharkiv,
Odesa and Mariupol.
The reports follow hard on the heels of a speech
by Russian president Vladimir Putin announcing that he was ordering a military
operation against Ukraine – declaring war on Ukraine in other words. Putin
added that any foreign attempt to interfere with Russian action would lead to
‘consequences they have never seen.’
Accusing the US and its allies of ignoring
Russia’s demands to stop Ukraine from joining Nato and offer Moscow security
guarantees Putin said the Russian military operation aimed to ensure a “demilitarisation”
and “de-Nazification” – in his words – of Ukraine.
Putin said Ukrainian servicemen who lay down arms
will be able to safely leave the zone of combat.
So far, where I am in Lviv in Ukraine’s west, it
remains quiet.
Updated at 3.44am GMT
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