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
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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
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
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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 by the Russian and Belarus armed forces