War in Ukraine: How Russia Attacked – SME.sk

Feb 24, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. I Paid content

KIEV, BRATISLAVA. Russian troops began an invasion of Ukraine on Thursday after four o’clock in the morning. Russian president Vladimir Putin in a televised speech he announced that Mask begins a “special military operation”.

According to him, Moscow cannot tolerate threats coming from Ukraine, and Russia is therefore “demilitarizing and denazifying” it.

A few minutes after Putin’s speech, air and rocket attacks began on several Ukrainian cities, including Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa and the Dnipro. The explosions mostly hit military targets or airports.

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The Russian army also attacked targets in western Ukraine, including Ivano-Frankivsk Airport and the village of Novy Kalyniv, which is only 70 kilometers from the Slovak border.

“Putin has just launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian cities are under fire. This is a war of aggression. Ukraine will defend and win. The world can and must stop Putin. Now is the time to act,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter.

Places where explosions and attacks took place. (source: SME / DC)

They give out weapons to people

From early in the morning, Russian military vehicles began to move to Ukraine from the eastern border, from Belarus and from annexed Crimea. The explosions were heard in the morning around the second largest city in Kharkov.

“I woke up to hear several explosions near Kharkov. I quickly went to make things, bought water, stood in front of an ATM for a long time to have cash. It makes me dizzy, there are traffic jams everywhere, because people are trying to run away, “Yevgeny Sherlaimov, a Kharkiv citizen, tells us.