Queues of traffic were seen on the road leading out of Kyiv as Russian forces launched an attack on Ukraine on the orders of Vladimir Putin.
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Within minutes of Putin’s short televised address, at about 5am Ukrainian time, explosions were heard near major Ukrainian cities, including the capital. Air raid sirens sounded over Kyiv and residents of Kharkiv sheltered in the metro, scenes that had not been seen in those cities since 1941

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