Vladimir Putin announces a military operation in Ukraine with explosions heard across multiple cities and outside eastern regions held by Russian-backed rebels
A view shows the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service site damaged by shelling in Kyiv region
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Smoke and flame rise near a military building after an apparent Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine. Big explosions were heard before dawn in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa
Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP
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In this image made from video provided by the Border Service of Ukraine, military vehicles pass a control point at the Armyansk checkpoint at the Ukraine-Crimea border
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A flame is seen from an area near the Dnieper River in Kyiv
Photograph: Mary Ostrovska/AP
Russian military tanks and armoured vehicles advance in Donetsk
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Young women hold their mobile phones as they take refuge in a metro station in Kyiv
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Kyiv inhabitants leave the city after pre-offensive missile strikes by the Russian and Belarus armed forces
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A wounded woman is seen as airstrikes damage an apartment complex outside of Kharkiv
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The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, addresses the nation in Kyiv. He declared martial law, saying Russia has targeted Ukraine’s military infrastructure and urged Ukrainians to stay home and not panic
Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP
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People walk in a metro station in Kyiv as air-raid sirens ring out in downtown Kyiv
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Black smoke rises from a military airport in Chuguyev near Kharkiv
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People in cars queue to leave the city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine
Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters
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Tanks move into the city after Vladimir Putin authorised a military operation in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine
Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters
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People watch a TV report on the crisis in Ukraine at the railway station in Seoul, South Korea
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The UK ambassador to the UN, Barbara Woodward, and the US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, talk while the Ukraine ambassador to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya, speaks on his phone after an emergency meeting at the UN headquarters in New York
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People take shelter in a metro station in Kyiv
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People rest in the Kyiv subway
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People take shelter in a subway station
Photograph: Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters
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A man stands in front of a Russian Ka-52 helicopter gunship is seen in the field after a forced landing outside Kyiv
Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP
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The body of a rocket stuck in a flat after recent shelling on the northern outskirts of Kharkiv
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A woman holds a cross as she prays on Independence square in Kyiv
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Hundreds of people seek shelter underground, on the platform, inside the dark train cars in Kharkiv
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A woman holds her baby inside a bus as they leave Kyiv
Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP
Police officers detain a demonstrator in St. Petersburg
Photograph: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP
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Protesters at a rally in St Petersburg
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2022/feb/24/russian-invasion-of-ukraine-begins-in-pictures
