Loudspeakers announce the location of evacuation centres in the city of Khartsyzsk, in eastern Ukraine, after Russia's President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into the self-proclaimed rebel republics of Donetsk and Lugansk on 'peacekeeping duties'. Putin's plans remained unclear, but Western officials have been warning for weeks he has been preparing for an all-out invasion of Ukraine, a move that could spark a catastrophic war in Europe.

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