Ukraine-Russia HIGHLIGHTS.
Shadow News has summarized for you the latest updates as follow:
- President Putin orders Russian troops to start military action in Ukraine.
- President Putin warns the west from intervening in Ukraine-Russia conflict.
- President Putin urged Ukrainian soldiers to down their weapons.
- Russian troops carry out missile strikes on Ukraine military infrastructure.
- Explosions have been heard across Ukrainian cities.
- Several deaths have been reported.
- Ukraine declares martial law.
- President Zelensky is ready to equip Ukrainians.
- Ukrainians seek shelter in underground bankers as many flee their homes.
- Oil prices surge above $100.
- Russian currency fell to an all-time low against the dollar and Euro.
- London Stock Exchange's leading FTSE 100 index plunged more than 200 points.
- World leaders from US, UK, UN and EU condemn Putin's actions.
Shadow News Full Updates:
Early Thursday, Russia begun a large-scale military attack on Ukraine, on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Several reports and images show attacks on Ukrainian military infrastructure across the country and, Russian convoys entering from Crimea region and eastern parts.
At 0255 GMT, President Putin ordered an attack in a televised speech. He announced a "military operation" in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. This area is home to many Russian-speaking Ukrainians and, has been occupied and controlled by Russian-backed rebels since 2014.
President Putin said Russia was intervening as an act of self-defence. Russia did not want to occupy Ukraine, he said, but would demilitarise and "de-Nazify" the country.
He urged Ukrainian soldiers in the combat zone to lay down their weapons and go home, but said clashes were inevitable and "only a question of time".
President Putin strongly added that any intervention from outside powers especially the US or NATO to resist the Russian attack would be met with an "instant" response.
Explosions have been heard across the country from the capital Kyiv, as well as Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Blasts have also been heard in the southern port city of Odesa.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had carried out missile strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure and on border guards.
Russia's defence ministry has denied attacking Ukrainian cities - saying it was targeting military infrastructure, air defence and air forces with "high-precision weapons".
Tanks and troops have poured into Ukraine at points along its eastern, southern and northern borders.
Russian military convoys have crossed from Belarus into Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region, and from Russia into the Sumy region, which is also in the north of Ukraine.
A Russian convoy enters Ukraine's Kherson region from Crimea. Others have also entered the eastern Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, and moved into the Kherson region from Crimea - a territory that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
There have also been reports of troops landing by sea at the Black Sea port cities of Mariupol and Odesa in the south. A loud explosion was heard in Odesa's city centre and some report shows many people were leaving their homes.
At least eight people are known to have died in attacks by Russian forces, this is according to the Ukrainian police department.
Ukrainian officials haves said that an attack on a military unit in Podilsk outside Odesa killed six people and wounded seven. Nineteen people are still missing.
The Ukrainian armed forces say they have shot down five Russian planes and a helicopter and inflicted casualties on invading troops.
However Russia's defence ministry has denied that its aircraft were shot down by Ukrainian armed forces.
Ukraine has declared martial law, which means the military takes control temporarily and, has cut diplomatic ties with Russia.
President Zelensky urged Ukrainians to protest against the invasion and said weapons would be distributed to anyone in Ukraine who wanted them.
Meanwhile Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba implored the world to impose devastating sanctions, including banning Russia from the international Swift bank transfer system.
Residents seek shelter
In Kyiv there are huge jams on expressways as people flee the city.
Social media testimonies speak to a growing sense of panic, with some saying they are being rushed into bomb shelters and into basements. Television footage has showed people praying in the streets.
Many people in Kyiv have sought shelter in underground metro stations. There are also long queues at petrol stations and cash machines.
Oil prices surged above $100 for the first time in more than seven years.
Meanwhile Russia's currency, the rouble, fell to an all-time low against the dollar and the euro.
And the London Stock Exchange's leading FTSE 100 index plunged more than 200 points, or 2.7%, within moments of opening.
World leaders condemn Putin's actions.
US President Joe Biden said President Putin had "chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering" and that the international community would hold Russia accountable.
In addition, thr UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "appalled by the horrific events in Ukraine" and that President Putin "has chosen a path of bloodshed and destruction by launching this unprovoked attack".
Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg condemned Russia's "reckless attack" saying it "puts at risk countless civilian lives".
The EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borell said Europe was "facing its darkest hours since World War II".
However former US President Donald Trump in a call to Fox News, he said President Putin took advantage of American "weakness".
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