A number of explosions had been reportedly heard exterior the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early Thursday, as Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced that his forces had been conducting a army operation to disarm the nation however not take it over.
Russian army automobiles transfer towards the border within the Donbas area of jap Ukraine.
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A Ukrainian serviceman speaks on a walkie-talkie at his place close to rebel-held territory close to Svitlodarsk, jap Ukraine.
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A wounded girl in an residence complicated broken by an airstrike exterior Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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A person mourns close to a physique after an airstrike at an residence complicated exterior Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Residents depart Kyiv after pre-offensive missile strikes by Russia.
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Civilians are evacuated from the Donetsk area underneath the management of pro-Russian separatists.
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Women maintain their cell phones as they take refuge in a Kyiv metro station.
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Folks stand on the doorway to a basement they use as a bomb shelter within the city of Schastia, close to the jap Ukraine metropolis of Lugansk.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day in Moscow on Wednesday.
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