according to NATO officials. The late-night attack began moments after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had «decided to conduct a special military operation» to protect eastern Ukraine's Donbas region.CBS News correspondents reported hearing loud blasts in the capital city, Kyiv, and in the eastern city of Kharkiv.In his speech on Russian state TV, Putin said his plans did not include an occupation of Ukraine.The attack came just two days after Putin recognized the self-declared «People's Republics» of Donetsk and Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, as independent, sending shockwaves across the globe and a new round of sanctions from the West.
Putin also ordered Russian forces into the breakaway region for what he called «peacekeeping functions.»Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Russia's move to recognize the two territories «a clear attack on Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity,» and on Tuesday, President Biden said Russia's invasion of Ukraine had begun.
Ukrainians — both the country's military and its civilians — have been bracing for an expansion of the eight-year war in Donbas for weeks.On Wednesday, the government in Kyiv called up military reservists and lawmakers approved a national state of emergency.
The emergency declaration gave authorities more power to «strengthen security of public places» outside of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukraine's national security chief Oleksiy Danilov said.Russia had massed roughly 190,000 forces near the Ukrainian border, and Mr.
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