NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Ukrainian airforce is trying to repel the Russian airforce which is attacking army installations throughout the country. Russia claims that it is using targeted weapons against Ukrainian military infrastructure.
03:00 GMT – Putin announces invasion
Putin announces an attack in Donbas and calls on Ukraine’s military to lay down its arms.The Russian leader warns other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to “consequences they have never seen”.
03:35 GMT – International condemnation
US President Joe Biden denounces Moscow’s “unprovoked and unjustified” attack on Ukraine, pledging the world will “hold Russia accountable”. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg echoes Biden’s statement, while United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, in an impassionate plea, says, “President Putin, in the name of humanity, bring your troops back to Russia.” Biden, in a phone call to Zelenskyy, also pledges support to Ukraine and its people.
3:46 GMT – Explosions reportedly heard in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine
04 GMT – Ukraine Ministry of Infrastructure announces passengers and staff evacuated from Kyiv airport
04:15 GMT – Explosions heard near Kyiv, elswhere.
In the east, artillery fire is reportedly heard in pro-Russian rebel controlled Donetsk and explosions heard near Kharkiv.
04:30 GMT – Ukraine says Russia has launched ‘full-scale invasion’
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says Russia has launched a “full-scale invasion” of Ukraine and is targeting cities with weapons strikes.
04:41 GMT – Kyiv mayor urges citizens to stay home following explosion heard in capital.
04:45 GMT – Ukraine shuts down its entire airspace in response to the Russian military operation in Donbass.
05:00 GMT – Russia says targeting ‘junta’ in Kyiv
Russia’s ambassador to the UN tells an emergency Security Council meeting that Moscow’s military operation against Ukraine was targeting “the junta” in power in Kyiv.
“I wanted to say in conclusion that we aren’t being aggressive against the Ukrainian people but against the junta that is in power in Kiyv,” says Vassily Nebenzia.
05 GMT – Russian-backed separatists say they have attacked Ukraine-controlled town
Russian-backed separatists say they had launched offensives on the Ukrainian-controlled town of Shchastia in the Luhansk province and against Ukrainian forces along line of contact in Donetsk, Russia’s Interfax news agency said.
05:25 GMT – Russia says targeting Ukraine military facilities with ‘precision’ weapons
“Military infrastructure, air defence facilities, military airfields, and aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being disabled with high-precision weapons,” the defence ministry says in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.
5:30 GMT – Russia suspends flights at domestic airports near Ukraine border until March 2.
05:45 GMT – Ukraine says eastern units under intensive shelling
Ukraine’s defence minister says Ukrainian units, military control centres and airfields in the country’s east are under intensive Russian shelling.
06:00 GMT – Ukraine says troops attacked from Belarus
Ukraine border guard service says the Russian military attacking Ukraine from Belarus as well as Russia itself.
06:05 GMT – Ukrainian leader Volodya Zelensky declares martial law
Zelensky, in a brief national address, says “Russia conducted strikes on our military infrastructure and our border guards” and introduces martial law across Ukraine.
6:15 GMT – Poland says it expects NATO’s eastern flank to be reinforced
Poland expects a decision on reinforcing NATO’s eastern flank after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, a Polish government spokesman said on Thursday.
“Now is the time to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank. We expect such decisions to be taken,” Piotr Muller said.
06:20 GMT – Russia says it has degraded Ukraine’s air defence
Russia’s defence ministry says it has attacked military infrastructure at Ukrainian airbases and degraded Ukraine’s air defences, according to reports by Russian news agencies. The claims could not be independently verified.
The ministry also denies reports that one of its aircraft had been shot down over Ukraine.
06:48 GMT – Separatists claim capture of Ukrainian towns
Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have said they have captured the towns of Shchastia and Stanytsia Luhanska in Ukraine’s region of Luhansk, the RIA news agency reported. There was no immediate comment by authorities in Ukraine.
07:00 GMT – Ukraine claims to have shot down Russian planes
The Ukrainian military says it has shot down five Russian planes and one helicopter in the Luhansk area. The claim could not be independently verified.
07:15 GMT – Ukraine says Russian military hardware entering from Crimea
Ukraine has that Russia was moving military equipment into the country from annexed Crimea and that Russia was shelling it across the country all the way to western Ukraine’s Lviv region.
07:15 GMT -Ukraine says at least 8 people killed by Russian shelling, as border guards says Russian columns have crossed into Ukraine.
At least eight people have been killed and nine were wounded by the Russian shelling, an advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs has said, according to Reuters news agency.
The border guard said separately Russian military columns have crossed Ukrainian border into Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions.
07:44 GMT – Russian-backed separatist say goal is to capture Ukrainian regions
A Russian-backed separatist leader in eastern Ukraine has said their main objective was to regain control of all the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk where their breakaway territories are located, the Interfax news agency reported.
08:25 GMT – Security camera footage shows Russian military vehicles crossing into Ukraine from Russian-annexed Crimea
08:35 – GMT Ukrainian central bank restricts cash withdrawals after tens of thousands rush to take money out of banks.
08:45 – Ukrainian police ask people to report suspicious persons walking the streets
08:48 GMT – Kyiv says anyone who can hold a weapon can join territorial defence forces
Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has said that anyone who is ready and able to hold a weapon can join the ranks of the territorial defence forces, as the police said they would distribute weapons to veterans.
9:00 GMT – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call Thursday that “the West would not stand by as President Putin waged his campaign against the Ukrainian people,” according to Downing Street.
Johnson and Zelensky spoke over the phone after Russia’s attack on Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday, according to a statement tweeted by Downing Street.
Johnson told Zelensky on the call that “he was appalled by the unfolding events in Ukraine,” said the statement. It added that Johnson hoped “Ukraine could resist,” and that the United Kingdom had Ukrainians in their thoughts “during this dark time.”
9:00 GMT – Ukrainian government spokesperson: Russian propaganda shares the news that Ukrainian army is leaving Mariupol (Donbas city). Its Fake. Ukrainian army is there and ready to defend the city.
9:05 GMT – Ukrainian government spokesperson: The Russian stock market is in free fall. Shares of Kremlin corporations fell by 30-50% and this is just the begging game of the auction. The ruble is falling sharply against the dollar and the euro.
9:10 GMT – Mariupol mayor says three ‘peaceful people’ killed in village near airport
The mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boychenko, has said three “peaceful people” were killed in Russian attacksnear the city’s airport.
He added others, including a child, were injured.
“I want to reassure you that our military spirit is at its highest level. Nobody will surrender Mariupol, we will defend our city and our land,” he said at a news conference.
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