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Russian invasion of Ukraine begins – in pictures

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

Photograph: State Border Guard Service/Reuters

A woman reacts as she waits for a train trying to leave Kyiv, Ukraine

Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP

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

Smoke rise from an air defence base in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol

Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

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

Photograph: AP

People wait at a bus station to go to western parts of the country in Kyiv, Ukraine

Photograph: Ümit Bektaş/Reuters

A cordoned off area around the remains of a shell in a street in Kyiv

Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty

Ukrainian firefighters try to extinguish a fire after an airstrike hit an apartment complex in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Photograph: Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency/Getty

Fire is seen coming out of a military installation near the airport in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine

Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

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

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Girls hold their mobile phones as they take refuge in a metro station in Kyiv

Young women hold their mobile phones as they take refuge in a metro station in Kyiv

Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty

Kyiv inhabitants leave the city after pre-offensive missile strikes of the Russian and Belarus armed forces

Kyiv inhabitants leave the city after pre-offensive missile strikes by the Russian and Belarus armed forces

Photograph: Pierre Crom/Getty

A wounded woman is seen as airstrikes damage an apartment complex outside of Kharkiv, Ukraine

Police officers inspect the remains of a missile that fell in a Kyiv street

Russians in Moscow watch a televised address by Vladimir Putin about authorising a military operation in the Ukrainian Donbass region. He announced the aim is to ‘demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to justice those who committed numerous bloody crimes against civilians’

People take shelter in a subway station in Kyiv

Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

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
People walk in a metro station in Kyiv as air-raid sirens ring out in downtown Kyiv

Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty
Black smoke rises from a military airport in Chuguyev near Kharkiv

Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty
People in cars queue to leave the city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine

Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters
Tanks move into the city after Vladimir Putin authorised a military operation in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine

Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters
People watch a TV report on the crisis in Ukraine at the railway station in Seoul, South Korea

Photograph: Ahn Young-joon/AP
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

Photograph: Jason Szenes/EPA

People take shelter in a metro station in Kyiv

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
People rest in the Kyiv subway

Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP
People take shelter in a subway station

Photograph: Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters
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
The body of a rocket stuck in a flat after recent shelling on the northern outskirts of Kharkiv

Photograph: Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images
A woman holds a cross as she prays on Independence square in Kyiv

Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images
Hundreds of people seek shelter underground, on the platform, inside the dark train cars in Kharkiv

Photograph: Marcus Yam/LOS ANGELES TIMES/REX/Shutterstock
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
Protesters at a rally in St Petersburg

Photograph: Valya Egorshin/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2022/feb/24/russian-invasion-of-ukraine-begins-in-pictures