Russia conducts full scale Ukraine invasion

Putin
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In the early hours of Thursday morning, Ukrainians woke to air raid sirens blaring out across all of their major cities followed by multiple missile blasts. The blasts were the beginning of a full-scale military invasion announced by Russian President, Vladimir Putin just minutes before.

Appearing unexpectedly on Russian national television, Putin addressed the Ukrainian people stating that the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine had turned to Russia with a request for help to free it from the occupation of “Ukrainian criminals”.

He was alluding to a letter sent on Wednesday from separatists in the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Luhansk that had requested Russian military aid to expel the Ukrainian military presence in the region.

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