Ukraine war
Channel: War of Ukraine
Date: 2023-05-08

Russian military intervention in Ukraine began in February 2014 after the victory of Euromaidan and the change of power in the country, when Russian troops occupied the Crimean peninsula - the regions of Ukraine Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol - and Russia annexed them.

Exactly one year ago, a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Ukrainian cities woke up from rocket attacks, the enemy broke through the border in several directions and tried to land near Kiev to quickly capture the capital.

00:00. On February 24, a state of emergency came into force in Ukraine. The decision was made after Russia recognized the so-called "Republics of Donbass", and Vladimir Putin received the approval of the Federation Council for the use of armed forces.
0:22. Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that the Ukrainian side initiated a meeting of the UN Security Council because of the appeal of the leaders of the "LPR" to Putin with a call to send troops.
00:45. President Volodymyr Zelensky made an emergency address to the people. According to him, the Russian leadership approved a "step forward", the invasion could begin at any moment, Ukraine is ready for negotiations with Russia, but Putin refused to talk on the phone.
01:29. Russia has restricted flights along the entire northeastern border of Ukraine.
02:06. The website of the Cabinet of Ministers was subjected to a cyberattack. The day before, banks and a number of government websites were attacked.
04:35. The airspace of Ukraine was closed for civil aviation flights. The sky was also closed in the border regions of Belarus and in the Bryansk, Voronezh, Rostov, Kursk, Belgorod, Rostov regions and the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation.
04:50. Putin announced a "special military operation". And he immediately stated that he allegedly did not plan to capture a neighboring country. According to him, the goals of the operation are "protection of Donbass, denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine."
04:59. NATO Secretary General António Guterres appealed to Putin to stop the troops.
05:13. THE RUSSIAN INVASION IS OFFICIALLY STARTED. The first explosions thundered in Kyiv and Kharkov.
Then there were reports of explosions in Boryspil near the airport, Dnipro, Odessa, Mariupol, Nikolaev, Kherson, Chernihiv and Sumy regions :(