âOn Feb. 24, 2022, Russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.â
This is completely wrong. Not worth reading the rest.
On 24 February 2022 around 05:30 am local time, a few hours after President of Russia Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of a special military operation in Ukraine, Russian troops of the Russian Airborne Forces made an on Antonov Airport with the objective of capturing it. The airport held strategic value as it was located less than 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) outside of the capital Kyiv, which would allow Russian troops to airlift more troops and heavier equipment to directly threaten the city
Feb. 24th:
3:59 a.m. (8:59 p.m. ET, Wednesday ): Livestream video from a border crossing station between Crimea â which was annexed by Russia in 2014 â and parts of southern Ukraine viewed by CNN showed what may have been the first signs of the Russian invasion.
In the video, a guard at the Kalanchak crossing is seen reacting to something heading towards the Ukrainian border. The guard begins moving back towards the gate, and soon another guard comes into frame.
About 25 seconds later, people who had just walked across to Crimea, are seen â suitcases in tow â running back across the border. The lights suddenly go out at the station, and the camera switches to black and white, recording in infrared.
4:08 a.m.: An individual dressed in camouflage is seen carrying a flashlight coming around one of the border guard stations. Three minutes later, three more individuals in camouflage are seen walking around the border crossing. Minutes later, the the camera cuts out.
Very soon after, another webcam at the Chongar border crossing â the only other active border crossing station from Crimea â shows lights suddenly turning off, and, minutes later, the camera turns off as well.
Putin announces âoperationâ
4:50 a.m.: Russian President Vladimir Putin made a speech, saying he had decided âto conduct a special military operation ⊠to protect people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years,â repeating a baseless claim about Ukraineâs Russian-separatist-backed Donbas region.
He denied, however, that Russia was planning to occupy Ukrainian territories. âWe are not going to impose anything on anyone by force.â
Russian President Vladimir Putinâs speech was broadcast minutes before the bombardment began.
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He went on to warn: âWhoever tries to interfere with us, and even more so, to create threats for our country, for our people should know that Russiaâs response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences that you have never experienced in your history.â
Strikes begin
5.07 a.m.: Russian forces launched a series of missile attacks against locations near Kyiv, as well as the use of long-range artillery against the northeastern city of Kharkiv, near the Russian border.
Before daylight: The strikes quickly spread across central and eastern Ukraine, as Russian forces attacked the country from three sides. People in the cities of Odessa, Dnipro, Mariupol and Kramatorsk reported huge blasts.
Several detonations to the east of Kyiv let off massive plumes of gray smoke rising into the night sky. One of the chief targets was the main international airport at Boryspil, which is pummeled by missiles.
Video showed a cruise missile hitting a military installation at the airport at Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine. Airports were also hit in Kharkiv, Ozerne, Kulbakino, Chuhuiv, Kramatorsk and Chornobaivka.
Most of the targets were military bases, but there was clearly substantial damage in and around several cities. In Kharkiv, video emerged of an apartment block that had been damaged by a missile or long-range artillery. Another video showed a rocket embedded in a road. The State Emergency Service reported that six people were trapped in rubble in Nizhyn.
A convoy of Russian military vehicles is seen moving towards the border in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine on February 23.
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Police officers inspect the remains of a missile that landed in a street in Kyiv on February 24.
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Ukraineâs interior ministry said ballistic missiles had been used as part of the offensive, while jets were heard over the central city of Zaporizhzhye.
The Russians used a wide array of weaponry in their assault, including attack aircraft and helicopters, tanks, long range artillery and missiles.
6.48 a.m.: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded to Putin with a minute-long speech of his own, saying he had spoken to US President Joe Biden and that the US was rallying international support for Ukraine.
âThe West is with us,â he said, and announced martial law across the country.
At the same time, a livestream video seen by CNN showed troops atop a column of military vehicles entering Ukraine from a border crossing with Belarus. The livestream video was taken at the Senkivka, Urkaine crossing with Veselovka, Belarus.
Dawn breaks
7 a.m.: After dawn, air raid sirens sounded across Kyiv and at around 7:45 a.m., sirens go off in the western city of Lviv.
A short time later, a single, unidentifiable plane roared above the capital.
Inhabitants of Kyiv leave the city following the Russian offensive of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
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8.00 a.m.: Ukraine claimed it had shot down five Russian aircraft and a helicopter. Russia denied losing any aircraft.
As the day began in Kyiv, streams of vehicles could be seen crossing the North Bridge, heading west, away from the focus of the Russian assault. Other people in the capital sought shelter in subway stations.
Across the country, long lines formed at gas stations and cash machines. A few people gathered in the streets of Kharkiv to pray.
An eyewitness who saw and heard the latest strike in the town of Brovary on the outskirts of Kyiv described the situation as âterrifying.â
11.28 a.m: Ukrainian leader Zelensky made a televised address, in which he said Russia has attacked Ukraine in a âcunning way,â comparing him to Hitler in World War II.
He called on âeveryone who is ableâ to join the military and called on veterans to come forward.
âFrom today our countries are on opposing sides of world history. Russia is on the side of evil, but it depends on the Russian people,â he said.
âThe people of Russia will have to choose which path each of them takes. Everyone in Russia who has not lost their honor, they have time to come out and protest this war.â
12:37 p.m.: More than 40 soldiers and about 10 civilians had been killed, Ukrainian authorities said.
12:45 p.m.: CNN teams in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa and Mariupol heard more strikes, though they appear to be less severe than explosions reported earlier.
12:55 p.m.: Around five blasts were heard by a CNN team in Kharkiv, Ukraineâs second-largest city.
Around 2 p.m.: A K-52 âAlligatorâ Russian helicopter was shot down in the Kyiv region, near Mezhyhirya, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry confirmed.
But you know everything.
I checked several events and it appears accurate, The maps are a bit more difficult to verify.
Itâs wrong and superficial to assume that the current war in Ukraine is a war between Russia and Ukraine (with or without the backing of the NATO).
Itâs a war for the entire humanity against the evil.
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Itâs France and Russia that helped the US gain independence.
Bakhmut latest. The horror.
The Russian advance accelerates, albeit the fact that Russia is not interested in gaining âterritory.â
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Only because there were strategic moves on Russiaâs part to which Western media made it look like that it was Ukraine who gained victory. The timeline only tells of Russiaâs invasion, however this war started way before 2022 in a narrative sense an admission that NATO recently even admitted.
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I enjoyed this one, I just wish they (Videos) were shorter.
The guy talks a lot. Heâs a lawyer.
He doesnât get any âinside intelâ or anything like that. Just like his colleague Alex Christoforou, he uses his power of deduction.
Last year in Las Vegas there was a big sign that said
âWe stand with Ukraine. Now auditioning Ukrainian strippersâ
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Yeah because its true! A lot of them are into human trafficking that come from Ukraine.
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âChinaâs peace initiative to resolve the conflict in Ukraine is welcome, but actions should follow it,with reports that the PRC allegedly plans to supply military drones to Russia.â - German Defense Minister
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âThere is not enough ammunition in all NATO countries.â - Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles
âIf martial law is introduced in Belarus, the number of military personnel will be about 1 500 000 peopleâ â State secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Alexander Volfovich
âGiven that the rate of casualties on a really bad day is 200 to 300 killed, you begin to see how many would be needed [for Ukraine] to replenish this[ 1,600-mile front line ].â - General Sir Richard Barrons, former commander of UK Joint Forces Command
âMoldova does not plan to discuss the issue of joining NATO, although the military in Transnistria is equipped with weapons better than the national army of the republic,â - President of the Moldovan Parliament
The head of the CIA, Burns, called the behavior of the director of the SVR(Foreign Intelligence Service) Naryshkin audacious in November last year
"There was also a very defiant attitude on the part of Naryshkin. A sense of audacity and arrogance⊠A feeling that, as I think, reflects Putinâs own opinion (Russian President Vladimir - ed.),
his own belief today that he can make time work for him, that he can grind Ukrainians, that he can exhaust our European allies, that political fatigue will eventually come," - Burns said in an interview with CBS News.
This last link is a take it with a grain of salt type of link, because the CIA are professional liars and its CBS.
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âWestern armies, including the French, should reconsider their policy regarding ammunition reserves. Insufficient supplies are a gambleâ - Thierry Burkhard Chief of the Defence Staff of France