UPDATED:
G7 leaders have issued a joint statement after an emergency meeting, condemning Putin for attacking Ukraine:
“He has put himself on the wrong side of history”
Early Thursday morning (or late Wednesday night in the US) Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine.
Russian forces attacked the country from three sides.
A senior defense official said the attacks on Ukraine overnight are part of an “initial phase” of a Russian invasion into the country,
“It is likely you will see this unfold in multiple phases, how many, how long, we don’t know, but what we’re seeing are initial phases of a large-scale invasion,” the senior defense official said.
“They’re making a move on Kyiv,” the official said.
Biden called it.
Much of what Biden administration officials said would happen in Ukraine has come to pass, starting with various false pretexts (false flags) for invasion in the pro-Russian regions, initial cyber-attacks, and eventually missile attacks on Kyiv.
A woman taking shelter in a subway station in Kharkiv, Ukraine, told CNN that her world changed overnight as Russia attacked her country.
“You wake up at 5 a.m. to a totally new reality, and you find out the world is no longer the safe place you imagined,” she told CNN’s Clarissa Ward.
“What’s my plan now? I don’t know. For now, we are staying here. To tell you the truth, I hope that Europe and USA, they will support us the most because [Russian President] Putin … understands only the language of power, and I hope they can really put him to sense, if it’s still possible. Because I don’t believe that he will just stop or that it will be a quick war, and I don’t want any people to die here in my land,” she said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF3YcRUk4GM