- Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine early Thursday.
- The assault began hours before dawn with a series of missile attacks against locations near the capital Kyiv, as well as the use of long-range artillery against the city of Kharkiv, near the Russian border.
- It quickly spread across central and eastern Ukraine as Russian forces attacked the country from three sides.
An eyewitness who saw and heard the latest strike in the town of Brovary on the outskirts of Kyiv described the situation as “terrifying.”
The CNN team in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, has heard around five blasts that are some distance away.
In the southern city of Odessa, our team heard a strike that was close enough to the city center that it set off car alarms. Another blast was heard along the coast of Odessa after five to six distant explosions at dawn.
In Mariupol, in the southeast of the country, the CNN team heard a barrage of artillery that lasted nearly 20 seconds.
Read more on CNN here.
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