videoThe Russian army started the war against Ukraine early this morning. President Vladimir Putin has officially ordered the deployment of armed forces in Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk regions, the Kremlin announced in Moscow this morning.
Bob van Huet
Latest update:
07:17
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said a major invasion of Ukraine has begun. Putin has launched a major invasion of Ukraine. Peaceful Ukrainian cities are under attack. This is a war of aggression,” the minister said on Twitter. The Russian news agency Interfax confirms that rocket attacks have started on various military targets in Ukraine.
US President Biden has accused Putin of “deliberately” starting a “war” against Ukraine. Russia alone is responsible for the resulting deaths and human suffering, Biden said. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg condemns the Russian attack on Ukraine in the strongest possible terms.
People’s Republic
According to pro-Russian rebels in the ‘independent’ People’s Republic of Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine, the attack started there. Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged Ukrainian soldiers to “lay down their weapons”. According to him, the operation is intended to “protect people”.
The Russian president also referred to ‘Nazism’, which he says is present in Ukraine and of which Russian speakers are said to be victims. He previously spoke of a ‘peace mission’. Russia will ‘respond immediately’ in case of ‘foreign interference’. He also states that ‘bloodshed is at the expense of the Ukrainian regime’.
Vladimir Putin has “started a full-scale war against us,” Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister. Russia is currently carrying out attacks on ‘peaceful cities’ in Ukraine, according to the minister.
emergency hearing
Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations Sergei Kislitsia asked Russian envoy Vasily Nebenzjaom at the emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, which was underway when the attack was launched at night, to “end the war.” ‘.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg condemns Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The “reckless and unprovoked” attack endangered “the lives of countless civilians,” Stoltenberg said. “Despite our repeated warnings and tireless diplomatic efforts, Russia has chosen the path of aggression against a sovereign and independent country,” Stoltenberg said.
Impacts
The BBC reported multiple impacts just after 5 a.m. this morning. After that, more were heard. CNN journalists, along with witnesses from Reuters news agency, report that explosions were heard near Kiev. According to the witnesses, it concerns ‘sounds that sound like the firing of artillery’. It may be the expected bombing of Ukrainian communication installations to cut off army units from the administrators in the capital. The mayor of Kiev has said the explosions were not in the city but just outside it.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss tweeted condemning the “horrific, unprovoked attack that President Putin has launched on the Ukrainian people.” Ukrainian President Zelensky has confirmed the attacks. “We are strong, we will win,” he says.
Airspace
The airspace over Ukraine is closed. The Ukrainian aviation authority decided to close the airspace during the night from Wednesday to Thursday because of ‘a potential danger to civil aviation’.
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