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#BREAKING Russian ground forces cross into Ukraine: border guards

#BREAKING Moscow says closing shipping in Azov Sea between Ukraine, Russia

Black smoke rises from a military airport in Chuguyev near Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Ukraine border guards report the first death and say Russia's ground forces have crossed into Ukraine from several directions

Russia faces "unprecedented isolation" over its attack on Ukraine and will be hit with the "harshest sanctions" the EU has ever imposed, says EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.

"This is not a question of diplomatic power games. It's a matter of life and death."

#UPDATE Russia's ground forces have crossed into Ukraine from several directions, Ukraine's border guard service says.

Russian tanks and other equipment crossed the frontier in several northern regions, as well as from Kremlin-annexed Crimea in the south, the agency says

#BREAKING Belarus leader says his army not taking part in Ukraine invasion

VIDEO: Ukraine residential buildings shelled.

Firefighters and residents on the scene of shelled buildings in Chuguev, Ukraine, as Russian President Vladimir Putin launches a military operation in Ukraine with explosions heard across the country

How it all began.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announces military operations in Ukraine.

It triggered immediate condemnation from many world leaders and sent global financial markets into turmoil

#BREAKING Ukraine says killed 'around 50 Russian occupiers'

A son wept over the body of his father among the wreckage of a missile strike in a residential district in the eastern Ukrainian town of #Chuguiv on Thursday as the country woke up to a Russian invasion u.afp.com/wQKY

#BREAKING German foreign minister says EU, NATO, G7 to launch 'massive sanctions' against Russia

#BREAKING UK PM Johnson to address the nation on Ukraine Thursday morning: office

#BREAKING Ukraine breaks diplomatic ties with Russia: president

#BREAKING Germany 'will provide massive help' to Poland in case of Ukraine refugee influx: interior minister

#BREAKING Germany boosts cyberattack defence amid Ukraine invasion: interior minister

#BREAKING Russian army says Moscow-backed separatist forces have 'advanced' in eastern Ukraine, civilians have 'nothing to fear'

#BREAKING More than 40 Ukraine soldiers, around 10 civilians killed: presidency

#BREAKING Lithuania to impose state of emergency following Ukraine invasion: president

#BREAKING Moldova says closing airspace citing Russian invasion of Ukraine

Frightened Ukrainians took to metro stations in the capital #Kyiv on Thursday as air raid sirens rang out across the country's main cities following Russia's launch of its feared military attack u.afp.com/wQHf

#BREAKING Archbishop of Canterbury, world's highest-ranking Anglican cleric, calls Russian attack on Ukraine 'an act of great evil'

Map of #Ukraine locating the main cities where explosions were heard on February 24 and the regions that Russian forces have entered, according to Ukrainian border guards

#BREAKING France's Macron calls for NATO summit 'as soon as possible': presidency

#BREAKING NATO says taking 'additional steps' to protect allies after Russia attack on Ukraine

#BREAKING German Chancellor Scholz says Putin 'jeopardising peace in Europe'

#BREAKING German Chancellor Scholz calls emergency parliamentary sitting Sunday over Ukraine invasion

#BREAKING European wheat prices hit record high after Ukraine invasion: analysts

#BREAKING NATO to hold video summit Friday on Russian invasion of Ukraine: diplomats

#BREAKING Kremlin says 'emotional' reaction of markets to Ukraine invasion, sharp drop in value of ruble, 'predicted'

#BREAKING Kremlin says believes Russians will 'support' Ukraine operation, duration of mission will depend on 'results'

#BREAKING Ukraine President Zelensky says Russia acting like 'Nazi Germany'

#BREAKING Turkey foreign ministry calls on Russia to 'stop unjust and unlawful' war

#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of #Ukraine on Thursday, forcing residents to flee for their lives and leaving at least 40 Ukrainian soldiers and 10 civilians dead u.afp.com/wQVb

#BREAKING Eighteen killed in attack near Ukraine's Odessa: official

#BREAKING France to strengthen 'all forms' of support to Ukraine: foreign minister

#BREAKING France's Macron to address the nation over Russia attack on Ukraine: presidency

#BREAKING Turkey's Erdogan denounces Russian invasion of Ukraine as 'heavy blow' to regional peace

#BREAKING NATO activating 'defence plans' for allies as Russia invades non-member Ukraine: Stoltenberg

#BREAKING China tells Russian foreign minister it understands Moscow's 'reasonable concerns on security issues' over Ukraine

#BREAKING NATO chief Stoltenberg says no 'plans' to send alliance troops into Ukraine

#BREAKING Russian forces break into north of Kyiv region: Ukraine border guards

#BREAKING UK PM Johnson says Western allies readying 'massive' package of sanctions against Russia, tells people of Ukraine: "We cannot and will not just look away"

#BREAKING UK PM Johnson calls Putin a 'dictator', Ukraine invasion a 'hideous and barbaric venture'

#BREAKING Ukraine military plane with 14 aboard crashes near Kyiv: emergency service

#BREAKING France's Macron vows response 'without weakness' to Russia's 'act of war'

#BREAKING France's Macron says Russia attack on Ukraine 'turning point' in European history

#BREAKING Italy PM Draghi demands Russia 'withdraw unconditionally' from Ukraine

#BREAKING France's Macron says Russia attack on Ukraine to have 'deep, lasting consequences for our lives'

#UPDATE French President Emmanuel Macron has warned Russia of an uncompromising response to its attack on Ukraine, which he described as a turning point in European history

EU chief Charles Michel has urged Belarus to "not take part" in Russia's military assault on Ukraine, ahead of an emergency European Union summit to decide new sanctions on Moscow over its invasion

Map of Ukraine locating cities where explosions and strikes occurred and regions where Russian forces entered, updated as of 1200 GMT
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VIDEO: The Ukrainian Border Guard Committee releases CCTV images of Russian military equipment crossing a border checkpoint in Crimea.
Russia has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, forcing residents to flee for their lives

US President Joe Biden is meeting with G7 allies to hammer out a raft of new sanctions against Russia after it invaded Ukraine, and will later speak to the American people on a crisis that he warns will cause "catastrophic loss of life"
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#BREAKING Moscow warns Russians against joining anti-war protests

VIDEO: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance is activating defence plans for its allies after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine following weeks of sparring with the West about NATO's presence in eastern Europe

Price of the Russian ruble against the euro since January 2022
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VIDEO: Images of the city center of the capital of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine

#UPDATE Russian authorities have warned anti-war sympathisers from gathering for protests, after President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine

📸 A Russian police officer films an anti-war protester in Moscow

#VIDEO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson refers to Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "dictator" who will never "subdue the national feeling of the Ukrainians", after Russia launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine

#UPDATE The price of wheat smashed its previous record high in European trading as Russia invaded Ukraine, putting a question mark on the future of exports from two of the world's biggest producers of the key commodity
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#VIDEO: Residents in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv take photos and inspect the damage caused by a missile which landed in the middle of their neighbourhood

#BREAKING Russia says destroys over 70 military targets, including 11 airfields, in Ukraine

#BREAKING Sanctions to 'dramatically limit' Russian access to EU, US markets: Germany

#BREAKING Ukraine army says battle under way for airbase near Kyiv

#BREAKING US stocks open sharply lower after Russia invasion of Ukraine, Dow -2.5%

#UPDATE 'Unprovoked and unjustified:' Leaders from US President Joe Biden to NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg and UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday condemned the Russian invasion of #Ukraine, with Western capitals vowing to escalate sanctions against Moscow u.afp.com/wQFa