{"id":50705,"date":"2022-02-24T19:38:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=50705"},"modified":"2022-02-24T19:38:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:08:14","slug":"russia-advances-towards-ukraine-capital-over-40-soldiers-10-civilians-dead-in-russian-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50705","title":{"rendered":"Russia Advances Towards Ukraine Capital, over 40 soldiers, 10 civilians dead in Russian attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Russian air strikes hit military facilities across the country and ground forces moved in from the north, south and east, triggering condemnation from Western leaders and warnings of massive sanctions.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The attack came on the first day of an invasion of Ukraine that President Vladimir Putin launched<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Kyiv: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, killing dozens and forcing hundreds to flee for their lives in the pro-Western neighbour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian air strikes hit military facilities across the country and ground forces moved in from the north, south and east, triggering condemnation from Western leaders and warnings of massive sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The attack came on the first day of an invasion of Ukraine that President Vladimir Putin launched<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Weeks of intense diplomacy failed to deter Putin, who massed over 150,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders in what the West said was the biggest military build-up in Europe since the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I have decided to proceed with a special military operation,” Putin said in a television announcement in the early hours of Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly afterwards, the first bombardments were heard in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and several other cities, according to AFP correspondents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As many as 40 Ukranian soldiers and around 10 civilians have been killed by Russian shelling, a Reuters report quoting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy adviser, said on Thursday. The AFP, meanwhile reported that Ukraine said it killed \u2018around 50 Russian occupiers\u2019 without providing details. The casualties are the latest in a series of fast-paced developments that began when Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine early Thursday.\u00a0Meanwhile, Ukraine\u2019s ambassador to India urged PM\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0to contact Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr to mediate the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday said that the country has severed diplomatic relations with Russia after Moscow 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 worst fears of the West. Zelenskiy has declared martial law in the country and Ukrainian foreign minister vowed to fight and defeat Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An AFP reporter in the northern part of the city saw several low-flying helicopters overhead amid reports that an airfield was under attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said a “full-scale invasion” was underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian air strikes hit military facilities across the country and ground forces moved in from the north, south and east, triggering condemnation from Western leaders and warnings of massive sanctions. The attack came on the first day of an invasion of Ukraine that President Vladimir Putin launchedKyiv:  Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}