Russia Invades Ukraine : War Comes To Europe - 1 week on
At around 3 am, on Thursday 24th February 2022, Russian President Putin announced, via a pre recorded message that Russia had launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine in response, he said, to threats from the country. Explosions were heard in cities across Ukraine and initial reports of casualties by around 7am GMT at least eight people had been killed and nine injured by the Russian shelling. I watched on TV in disbelief and horror, with millions of others around the world, as Russian tanks rolled across the border and reporters told of the escalating situation, minute by minute. Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced in a pre-recorded broadcast that he had ordered "a special military operation" in eastern Ukraine in response, he said, to Ukraine aggression. The Ukraine Border Service said that its border posts with Belarus and Russia were under attack and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared...