A number of casualties have been reported in Ukraine after Russia launched an all-out invasion of its neighbor.

Citing a Ukrainian inside ministry supply, CNN reported that the first missile strikes on Thursday in Ukraine brought on tons of of casualties, though it wasn't identified what number of of these folks have been killed.

There have been conflicting claims on accidents, deaths, and aircraft shoot-downs, a lot of which haven't been independently confirmed. Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian inside ministry for remark.

Nonetheless, photos shared on social media demonstrated the extent to which civilians have been being impacted by Russia's actions and the way widespread the assaults have been.

CNN mentioned that there had been at the very least 19 salvos within the capital metropolis, Kyiv, and there have been reviews of comparable strikes throughout the nation.

Kyiv has reported troops pouring throughout its borders into the jap Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Luhansk areas, and touchdown by sea on the cities of Odessa and Mariupol within the south.

One clip on Twitter confirmed an condo block within the jap Ukrainian city of Chuhuiv that was severely broken after it was hit within the opening strikes.

In the meantime, Ukraine's Basic Workplace of the Nationwide Police mentioned that at the very least six folks has been killed and 7 others wounded in a bombing within the metropolis of Podolsk within the southern Odessa area.

Video was additionally shared on Twitter of a missile hitting an airport, reportedly in Ivano-Frankivsk in Western Ukraine.

Investigative journalism and reality checking web site Bellingcat mentioned it had verified footage of the second a bike owner was killed by Russian artillery in Uman, in Cherkasy area.
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Elsewhere, a person advised AFP of his sorrow on the demise of his father who was among the many wreckage of a missile strike in a residential district in Chuhuiv.

The Ukrainian inside ministry revealed photos of border service amenities within the Kyiv area which it mentioned had most likely been hit by missiles.

"The enemy attacked not solely items on the border, but additionally objects in cities of Ukraine," it mentioned in a Fb put up, in line with a translation. "The principle activity is panic and elimination of sure navy objects and important infrastructure."

A resident of Ukraine's second largest metropolis Kharkiv advised Reuters home windows in condo blocks have been shaking from fixed blasts.

Ukrainian journalist Lyubov Velychko advised the BBC she went to a navy base close to Kyiv which had been hit by rockets in an assault wherein two folks died.

The hostilities have sparked an exodus from the capital the place visitors jams had fashioned. Residents sought shelter in metro stations and stood in line for buses and financial institution machines.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had introduced throughout a tv tackle that the invasion was to guard Russian residents who had confronted "genocide" in Ukraine, a declare dismissed by the West as absurd.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Putin's goal was to destroy his state and introduced that Kyiv's diplomatic ties with Moscow had been lower.

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Police and safety personnel collect by the stays of a shell that landed in a avenue in Kyiv on February 24, 2022. There are reviews of tons of of casualties in Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a navy operation.Sergei Supinsky/Getty

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