Vladimir Putin’s forces stormed Ukraine and mobilised for an overwhelming assault on Kyiv as Russia unleashed one of Europe’s largest military offensives since the second world war.
After air and missile strikes, Russian troops launched attacks from Ukraine’s northern border with Belarus, across its eastern frontier and in the south from Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow invaded and annexed in 2014.
Columns of tanks and armoured vehicles rolled into the country from all three fronts, while fighter jets, airborne troops and dozens of helicopters attacked a critical airport outside of Kyiv. Senior western officials warned that Russia was assembling an “overwhelming force” to take the capital, potentially within days.
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