Airstrikes at dawn as Russia begins ‘war of aggression’ with Ukraine

Ukrainians react with defiance as Vladimir Putin launches biggest attack by one state against another since second world war

• Russia-Ukraine crisis: live news

It began an hour before dawn, airstrikes and missiles raining down on military bases, airfields, border posts and cities across Ukraine, explosions lighting up the still-darkened sky from Odessa to Mariupol, Kharkiv to Dnipro, Lutsk to the capital, Kyiv.

In the grey early light that followed, Russian tanks and troops began rolling across the border, columns of soldiers pouring into the eastern regions of Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Luhansk in the east. Others landed in the ports of Odessa and Mariupol.

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