Ukraine will impose maximum losses on the advancing aggressor [Russia], announced Lieutenant general Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the official Facebook page.
"Today, on 24 of February, at 5.00 AM the armed forces of the Russian Federation launched an intensive shelling of our units on east, delivered missile/bomb strikes on airfields in Boryspil, Ozerne, Kulbakino, Chuhuiv, Kramatorsk, Chornobaivka, as well as on military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time the aggressor started artillery shelling of the areas and settlements along the state border and administrative boundary with temporarily occupied territory of Crimea." said the country's top general.
"The Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine [President Volodymyr Zelensky] gave orders to inflict the maximum losses to the aggressor".
There are no losses among the defenders of Ukraine. We are on our land and we will not give it up! Together to the Victory!"
After Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, Russian cruise missile strikes rained down on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, including residential apartment blocks deep inside Ukraine.
Ukraine has reported artillery attacks from Belarus as well.
