Ukraine

In charts and maps, explaining the latest on Russia's invasion of Ukraine—and how it got to this.

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Ukrainian forces battled Russian invaders on three sides on Thursday after Moscow unleashed the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two, ...

Ukrainians are fighting against this regime from Russia and it's really devastating," she said. War and sanctions will disrupt economies around the world already facing a crisis as they emerge from the coronavirus pandemic. A democratic nation of 44 million people, Ukraine is Europe's biggest country by area after Russia itself. "What we have heard today are not just missile blasts, fighting and the rumble of aircraft. And now he and his country will bear the consequences," he said. Putin, after referring earlier in his speech to Russia's powerful nuclear arsenal, warned: "Whoever tries to hinder us... read more should know that Russia's response will be immediate. read more After nightfall, a picture was emerging of fierce fighting across multiple fronts. There was also fighting at Hostomel airport, just outside Kyiv, where Russian paratroopers landed. read more

Reports on the ground indicated that key areas across Ukraine were at risk of Russian takeover and that troops were on the outskirts of Kyiv.

The news organization reported that nearly 1,000 people were arrested in Moscow alone. Our national task is to make this curtain pass not through our Ukrainian territory but at the homes of Russians.” Leaders across the world sharply condemned Russia’s actions and promised retribution in some form. President Joe Biden announced a new batch of sanctions during remarks Thursday afternoon following a meeting with G-7 officials, with several allies also announcing financial punishments. Also concerning, government officials announced that Russia had taken control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, The Kyiv Independent reported. It's not just rocket explosions, battles, the roar of aircraft,” Zelenskyy said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine early Thursday. US President Joe Biden announced new "strong" sanctions on Russia ...

Ukraine leader says at least 137 killed in full-scale Russian military attack as Western powers announce a series of sanctions against Moscow. Ukrainian ...

The sanctions include freezing the assets of all big Russian banks, including VTB Bank, its second-biggest. Ukraine said it lost control of the Chernobyl nuclear site after Ukrainian forces waged a fierce battle with Russian troops. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said his agency had stepped up its operations and capacity in both Ukraine and its neighbours. The US said Russia had nearly 200,000 troops arrayed near Ukraine’s borders before the invasion began. He urged Ukrainian servicemen to “immediately put down arms and go home”. The Ukrainian military has fought back on multiple fronts.

The cabinet has been given "ominous assessments" of the chances of Russia overwhelming Ukraine soon.

We will all feel it, in the price of petrol at the pump, even the cost of a loaf of bread. Our economy's still recovering from the battering of another shock, a global pandemic. The West wants to fight Mr Putin's real weapons with economic ones - it is a not a symmetrical fight. The price of oil, the price of wheat, the effect on the financial markets that feed through to our pensions, our pay. They are the first political generation in decades to have to grapple with a war of this nature in our continent. Disagreements over the approach to take towards the Russian aggression are largely only over the scale and pace of the response, not the overall approach.

Russia has begun a large-scale military attack on Ukraine, its southern neighbour, on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Addressing Russians, he said: "I cannot believe this is being done in your name, or that you really want the pariah status it will bring to the Putin regime." You can also get in touch in the following ways: But clashes have also been taking place around Kyiv and the Black Sea port cities of Odesa and Mariupol. "People were out on the streets last night in this city - they were waving the Ukrainian flag. A British resident of Odesa told the BBC many people were leaving. They were going nowhere," she reported. Ukraine said it had killed 50 Russian troops. Mr Putin said Russia was intervening as an act of self-defence. "I think he wanted to do something and negotiate, and it got worse and worse, and then he saw the weakness," Trump said. There have also been reports of troops landing by sea at the Black Sea port cities of Mariupol and Odesa in the south. He urged Ukrainian soldiers in the combat zone to lay down their weapons and go home, but said clashes were inevitable and "only a question of time". Convoys have also entered the eastern Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, and moved into the Kherson region from Crimea - a territory that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Ukrainian forces were battling Russian troops on the outskirts of Kyiv, a city of 2.8 million people, where President Volodymyr Zelensky warned in a television ...

“I feel useless and guilty that I am a Ukrainian here,” said Ms. Mykyta, who has lived in the United States for 26 years and is a naturalized citizen. “The Americans and the media need to see that side of things.” “The U.S. has a short attention span and has a desire to think less about foreign conflict these days,” said Mr. Teluk, a lawyer in the Cleveland area. “Russia is also a big country among world powers and is showing that it also plays a main role in the balance sheet of maintaining world peace.” They said that there was a bomb shelter under the hotel, which started as an imposing and solid fort built in 1865 to look down on the city. “The first days are the most difficult, because right now the enemy will feel it has the advantage, or will be broken physically and morally,” Hanna Malyar, the deputy defense minister, said before calling on people to join a general mobilization. They said that there was a bomb shelter under the hotel, which started as an imposing and solid fort built in 1865 to look down over the city. If Russia wins that game, it would host the winner of the game between the Czechs and Sweden in a match to decide one of Europe’s final places in the World Cup in Qatar later this year. Mr. Wallace, speaking to the BBC on Friday morning, said President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had so far failed in an attempt to take a key airport north of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, wrote Friday on Twitter that he had spoken with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and expressed his support for the Ukrainian people. The 44-year-old president, appearing unshaven and in a T-shirt, called on Ukrainians to defend themselves, in absence of military help from the outside world. By midmorning, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said that Russian forces had entered the Obolon district, a few miles north of central Kyiv, and urged people in the capital to stay indoors.

President Zelenskyy announced Ukraine would break diplomatic relations with Moscow in response to Russia's invasion.

Just like fascist Germany did during the second world war.” “Ukraine is defending itself and will not give up its freedom, no matter what Moscow thinks. President Zelenskyy announced Ukraine would break diplomatic relations with Moscow in response to Russia’s invasion.

Just as diplomats at a last-minute United Nations Security Council meeting were pleading for peace, Russian fire began raining down on Ukraine.

"This is a conflict that is going to extend over months and years whether the invasion goes well for Putin or not. The extent and duration of the operation led by tens of thousands of Russian troops massed around Ukraine is not yet certain. One autocratic Russian leader has made the choice to deprive millions of Ukrainians of their right to make their own decisions about their country and its future. More broadly, Putin's attack on Ukraine is another challenge to America's global power and the concept of a free and democratic world that multiplies its influence. There is also the possibility of a US-funded insurgency in Ukraine, raising the risky prospect of a new proxy war between Washington and Moscow. The Ukrainian President, a former comedian now charged with narrating a national tragedy, told Russians, "We want to determine our history by ourselves. And in a chilling aside, hours before guns again rang out over a continent stained with the blood of millions lost in tyrants' wars, Zelensky noted the lesson that localized battles rarely stay that way in a region cursed by history -- a point underscored by the tens of thousands of US graves in Europe from two world wars. Former US Defense Secretary William Cohen, speaking to CNN's Anderson Cooper, made a similar point. His reference to Nazis raised the idea of political purges and suggested a mindset seemingly verging on paranoia. showed a column of military vehicles streaming into the country from Belarus, where Russian troops had been massed. The Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia look suddenly vulnerable and, unlike Ukraine, are NATO members the US is treaty bound to defend. And since Putin had been demanding pullbacks from NATO in ex-Soviet satellite states that had joined the organization, this is America's crisis too.

The Russian invasion stirs international condemnation, roils global markets and a promise by Ukraine's president to defend the country.

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MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia declared the start of a “special military operation” in Ukraine on Thursday, after months of speculation ...

In Russia itself, celebrating Defenders of the Fatherland Day, a national holiday marking the founding of the Red Army, Mr. Putin reiterated his combative message. During p eace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, Russia promised it would “reduce military activity” near Kyiv, and Ukraine said it was ready to declare itself permanently neutral. Earlier, Ukraine’s Security Council declared a 30-day state of national emergency in response to the threat of a Russian invasion. “Listen to the voice of reason,” Mr. Zelensky said in a nationally televised address early Thursday, adding that Kremlin propaganda painting Ukrainians as aggressors was a lie. The warning came a day after the United States announced sanctions on two Russian banks and curbs on Russia’s sovereign debt, effectively cutting the country off from Western financing. “What are you going to be fighting for and with whom?” “We won’t attack, but we will defend ourselves,” he said. “While there is still an opportunity for Russia to reverse course, we can no longer hold out hope that this standoff will be resolved peacefully,” Mr. Warner said. “This is a war of aggression,” he wrote on Twitter. “Ukraine will defend itself and win. The world will hold Russia accountable.” “President Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering,” Mr. Biden said. “We are ready for any turn of events.”

In an address to Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky did not specifically say Russian forces had entered Kyiv, but his reference to “sabotage” units was ...

Russian tanks and armored vehicles appear to have faced some resistance. Markarova said President Volodymyr Zelensky remains in Ukraine but declined to disclose his location. A Russian platoon from the 74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade had surrendered to Ukrainian forces, the ambassador said. “Health institutions and medical workers are supposed to save lives, not die.” We ask citizens to take this information into account.” With Moscow’s troops amassing in the border throughout the past months, groups of volunteers and veterans — then thought to be unlikely combatants — were trained by active military troops. With fewer than 100 inhabitants, the island marks Ukraine’s territorial waters — giving it a strategic role within the Black Sea by connecting the shipping corridor to the Ukrainian port cities of Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson. “They’re not going to stop,” Joulwan said. Putin is trying to subjugate a friendly European country. Some countries initially hoped to deter a Russian invasion by hitting the country with one big sanctions package, others pressed for an incremental approach. One question going into the talks was whether the E.U. would heed calls from eastern European countries to cut Russia off from the Swift global payment system. He also said the country has been left to fight alone by NATO despite appeals for help from the alliance.

Moscow launches a deadly attack targeting cities and military targets, as civilians attempt to flee.

Since then more than 14,000 people have died in the east in a conflict between the rebels and Ukrainian forces. You can also get in touch in the following ways: Addressing Russians, he said: "I cannot believe this is being done in your name, or that you really want the pariah status it will bring to the Putin regime." Russian tanks were later seen on the outskirts of Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million people. The breakaway regions were seized by Russian-backed rebels after Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Then Ukrainian forces said Russian military vehicles had crossed the border near Kharkiv in the north, Luhansk in the east, Russian-annexed Crimea in the south and from Belarus too. Ukraine said it had killed 50 Russian troops and shot down six Russian aircraft, but this has not been verified. Under the defensive alliance's treaty, Nato can be brought together if any member fears their independence or territory is under threat. In the capital Kyiv, home to almost three million people, warning sirens blared out as traffic queued to leave the city and crowds sought shelter in metro stations. Mark, a 27-year-old sales executive, said he was ready to be called up to fight. Moscow first struck Ukraine's military infrastructure and border guard units. Dozens of people have been killed, including about 10 civilians.

Central Kyiv was rocked by explosions after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an offensive that he said was aimed at toppling the government.