A man sits outside his destroyed building after bombings on the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv on Feb 24, as Russian armed forces are trying to invade Ukraine from several directions, using rocket systems and helicopters to attack Ukrainian positions in the south, the border guard service said. - Photo: AFP
KIEV: Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday (Feb 24), hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine's government said 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.
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