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© Reuters. View from Kyiv following the authorization by Russian President Vladimir Putin of a military operation against eastern Ukraine on February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

(Reuters) – Here are the facts about Ukraine’s crisis.

HEADLINES

* Russia launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine by land, air and sea on Thursday, the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War Two and confirmation of the West’s worst fears.

* Russian President Vladimir Putin says his aim is to demilitarise and ‘denazify’ Ukraine.

* Russian troops attacked Ukraine from Belarus as well as Russia and from annexed Crimea, Ukraine’s border guard service said. Near the capital Kyiv, missiles fell on Ukrainian cities.

* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to world leaders to impose all possible sanctions, saying Putin wanted to destroy the Ukrainian state.

* The European Union will impose new sanctions, freezing Russian assets, halting access of its banks to the European financial market and targeting “Kremlin interests” over its “barbaric attack”, senior officials said.

* U.S. President Joe Biden said Washington and its allies would impose “severe sanctions”.

* Central European countries started preparations to receive potentially hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Ukraine.

* Moldova declared a state of emergency as dozens of cars queued on its border with Ukraine, according to Moldovan media websites.

* Russia suspended movement of commercial vessels in the Azov sea, but kept its Black Sea ports open for navigation, its officials and five grain industry sources said.

* Ukraine asked Turkey to close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to Russian ships, Ukraine’s ambassador to Ankara said.

QOTATIONS

Putin stated that he had decided to launch a military special operation to “protect people who were subject to bullying and genocide.” And for this, we will fight for the demilitarisation of Ukraine.

“And to bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody offenses against civilians including citizens of the Russian Federation.”

– Putin just declared a complete invasion of Ukraine. Dmytro Kuleba (Ukraine Foreign Minister) tweeted that peaceful cities of Ukraine were under attack.

CONTINUED EVENTS

* Biden will meet with his G7 counterparts Thursday to map out more severe measures against Russia after Putin launched what Biden called “a premeditated war” against Ukraine.

* European Union leaders will discuss further sanctions at an emergency meeting on Thursday, the EU said.

* NATO ambassadors will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday.

* The U.N. Security Council will discuss a resolution condemning the invasion.

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