Russia launched a full-scale attack from multiple directions on Ukraine on

February 24, 2022, after several weeks of building up troops on the country's
border. Millions of Ukrainians fled the country and others took up arms against
Russian soldiers.
Infrastructure facilities in eight regions were hit in the Russian missile strikes, the
most intense since the first days of the invasion.
Yesterday Putin said they were in retaliation for a strike on a multibillion-dollar
bridge connecting Russia to Crimea. The Ukrainian General Staff said cities hit by
Russian strikes included Kyiv, Lviv, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi,
Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsya, Kharkiv, Kremenchuk, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia,
Mykolayiv and Odesa. 12 people were killed in the Russian airstrikes and 80 were
injured. President Putin vowed to deliver more strikes against Ukrainian
infrastructure.

Ukraine will win this war. We can liberate our entire land and we can put the
terrorist state in place. Russia must be punished for terror. Only this guarantees
that the confrontation will not grow to an even greater scale and will not spread
to other countries.
But for this we must preserve the maximum unity - the unity of all the people of
the world who value peace, respect the right to life for everyone and are honest
enough to admit: the constant terror against the civilian population is an obvious
Russian refusal to engage in real negotiations.
And Ukraine needs principled and sufficient aid. Aid to our people who are
targeted by the terrorist state. It is necessary to accelerate the provision of a
sufficient number of effective air defense systems to Ukraine. The negotiations on
the provision of such air defense systems, the negotiations on increasing other
defense, political and financial support for Ukraine are the only possible
negotiation format that can really bring peace closer.