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On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which had started in 2014.The invasion, the largest and deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II, [15] [16] [17] has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties.
Flooded village of Demydiv as a result of the dam breach. According to The New York Times, artificial flooding played a key role in the fighting near Kyiv in March 2022. The spilled water created an effective barrier for tanks, forcing the Russian troops to advance from other directions — in the area of Hostomel, Bucha, and Irpin, where they were forced into urban combat.
On 25 February 2022, shortly after the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, as the battle of Kyiv began with Russian forces approaching the city and false rumors spread of Zelensky fleeing the city, Zelensky posted a "defiant" video of himself with other top government leaders on the streets of Kyiv, saying "We are all here. We're in here.
Russian forces, after initially failing to advance on the capital Kyiv after its February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, are concentrating on capturing Donbas, made up of the eastern regions ...
[8] Later that day, he posted another video of a short speech addressing the ongoing Russian assault on Kyiv, urging Kyiv residents to fight back "any way you can." [9] On 24 February, Zelensky had teleconferenced with European Union leaders. [10] On 26 February, he posted a short speech warning against disinformation that he had fled Kyiv. [11]
The National Cancer Institute in Kyiv was busier than usual after a Russian missile struck Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital this week, forcing the evacuation of dozens of its young ...
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Apartment complex in Kyiv after the strike. Russia fired 14 missiles on Kyiv, some of them being X101 missiles fired from Tu-95 and Tu-160 bombers over the Caspian Sea, [240] damaging residential buildings and a kindergarten. [241] [242] The strikes were the first strikes on Kyiv in three weeks, and killed one person and injured six others.