From 05:00 on February 24, Russian troops launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, inflicting missile strikes on airports, military depots and critical infrastructure.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces give a worthy rebuff to the enemy, who suffers losses.
See the online map of shelling and fighting on the territory of Ukraine.
As of 16.00 on February 25, the General Staff reported on the offensive of the Russian occupiers in different directions. The Armed Forces of Ukraine repel enemy attacks and hold the defense.
Map of Russia's invasion of Ukraine – current data as of 19.30 February 24.
Map of Russia's invasion of Ukraine at 16.27. The data showed that the Russian army is moving from the South, North and East.
Around 05:00 on February 24, Russian troops, on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, attacked Ukraine. It is known that the invasion began with an attack on airfields, military depots in Kyiv, Kharkov and the Dnieper, as well as on the state border in the area with Russia, Belarus and the occupied Crimea.
Updated 17.55. Russian troops carried out an attack in the North, East, South, as well as in the West – in the Volyn and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.
Now all military units are in their positions.
– The enemy suffers losses. Preliminarily, at present, seven aircraft of the Russian Space Forces have been shot down in the JFO area.
An attack on Shchastya was repulsed, during which two tanks were knocked out and about 50 Russian invaders were destroyed, according to the headquarters of the JFO.
According to the Odessa Regional State Administration, as a result of a strike on a military unit in the village of Lipetskoye, 18 people (eight men and ten women) were killed.
Employees of the State Emergency Service rescued six people from the rubble. They were hospitalized in the Podolsk city hospital.
One of the rescued died in a medical facility.
According to the General Staff, the Armed Forces recaptured Zmeiny Island .
Over Mezhyhirya, Kiev region, a Russian Ka-52 helicopter was shot down.
The invaders launched two rockets in Brovary, Kiev region.
At 12:56 pm, the State Border Service reported that Russian equipment had made a breakthrough in the Kiev region .
The military equipment of the enemy entered through the Vilcha checkpoint.
“The border guards, together with the Ukrainian military, took the fight,” the State Border Service notes.
In addition, shelling from Gradov was carried out at the place of deployment of the Mlachevka border service department of the Zhytomyr detachment .
Now the border units, depending on the situation, are redeployed to reserve positions and operate in cooperation with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard.
It is known that closer to 18.00, a Russian reconnaissance platoon of the 74th motorized rifle brigade surrendered near Chernigov. The military thought that they were being taken home after the exercises, and not to fight.
Toward evening, it became known that the Russian landing force, which landed on the airfield in Gostomel near Kiev, was blocked . Our military launched an artillery strike on the airfield to defeat.
Heavy air traffic avoids the region that spans Ukraine and its borders with Russia, according to flight tracking websites.
