Ukraine severs diplomatic relations with Russia

"We have severed diplomatic relations with Russia. Ukraine is defending itself and will not give up its freedom whatever Moscow thinks," President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said at a briefing, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

Independence and the right to live on their land is the highest value for Ukrainians, the President said.

"Russia viciously and self-destructively attacked our country early in the morning, just as Nazi Germany did during World War II. As of today, our countries are on different sides of world history. The Russian state is on the path of evil. But a lot still depends on the Russian people," the President of Ukraine said.

He stressed that Russian citizens would choose their own path. "For all those, who have not yet lost their conscience in Russia, it is time to go out and protest against this war, against the war with Ukraine," Zelensky added.

As reported, head of the aggressor country Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of a special military operation in Donbas.

On the morning of February 24, Russia attacked Ukraine and launched a war.

In particular, Russian troops fired missiles at airfields in Boryspil, Ozerne, Kulbakine, Chuhuiv, Kramatorsk, Chornobayivka, as well as at military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Ukraine's state border with Russia and Belarus has been attacked by Russian troops supported by Belarus.

Russian armored vehicles violated the Ukrainian border in Chernihiv, Sumy, Luhansk, and Kharkiv regions.

In addition, the attack is carried out from the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and from the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

On the morning of February 24, the Verkhovna Rada approved a presidential decree on the imposition of martial law throughout Ukraine.

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