Ukraine crisis: Russia claims Day 1 of attack successful, dozens dead in strikes

Russia Ukraine Crisis : Describing the first day of its strikes on Ukraine as "success", Russia's Defence Ministry said it had achieved all its goals. Russia claimed that it had destroyed 83 land-based Ukrainian targets. Ukrainian police said Russia had carried out 203 attacks since the beginning of the day.

Reports said that dozens of Ukrainians have been killed in Russian attacks from land, air and sea.

Reuters has reported that fierce fighting is taking place in the regions of Sumy and Kharkiv in the northeast and Kherson and Odessa in the south.

Ukrainian officials said Russian forces had captured the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, just 90 km north of the capital, and Hostomel airport in the Kyiv region, where paratroopers had earlier been landed.

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Ukraine's military said it had destroyed four Russian tanks near Kharkiv, killed 50 troops near a town in Luhansk region, and downed six Russian warplanes in the east.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called on Ukrainians to defend their country and said arms would be given to anyone prepared to fight.

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