Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” in Ukraine early Thursday, launching attacks in cities and forcing Ukrainians to flee the country or seek shelter in basements and subway stations as explosions were heard in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.
A man mourns next to the body of a victim of a Russian airstrike that hit an apartment complex near Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser in the Ukrainian President’s Office, said more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers and 10 civilians had been killed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said Russia fired cruise and ballistic missiles targeted at infrastructure near major cities, including Kyiv and the second-largest city Kharkiv.
Long lines of cars formed in Kyiv as Ukrainians headed out of the city Thursday morning to find safety in parts of Ukraine closer to neighboring Poland and NATO troops.
A wounded woman at an apartment complex in the city of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast, after an airstrike.
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A damaged radar, vehicle and equipment at a Ukrainian military facility outside Mariupol, Ukraine.
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Smoke rises from a house outside Kyiv following Russian shelling.
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A Ukrainian military track on fire after an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine.
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Long lines of cars form in the Ukrainian capital as people try to leave the city.
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People line up to withdraw cash from ATMs in Odessa, Ukraine.
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People at a bus station in Kyiv as they try to leave the city.
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A woman and a child wait for a train at a train station in Kyiv.
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