Russia Attacks Ukraine, ‘Shattering’ European Peace

Associated PressPublished: February 24, 2022

MEDYKA, POLAND - FEBRUARY 24: Fire engines parked in front of a sports hall selected to operate as a refugee center in case of a huge influx of refugees from Ukraine on February 24, 2022 in Medyka, Poland. Overnight, Russia began a large-scale attack on Ukraine, with explosions reported in multiple cities and far outside the restive eastern regions held by Russian-backed rebels. (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)

By YURAS KARMANAU, JIM HEINTZ, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DASHA LITVINOVA, Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee.

Ukraine's government said Thursday that Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in a "full-scale war" that could rewrite the geopolitical order and whose fallout already reverberated around the world.

President Vladimir Putin unleashed Moscow's most aggressive action since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

He deflected global condemnation and cascading new sanctions and threatened any foreign country attempting to interfere.

The chief of the NATO alliance said the "brutal act of war" shattered peace in Europe.

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