{"id":123216,"date":"2022-02-24T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=123216"},"modified":"2022-02-24T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T14:06:12","slug":"russia-launches-attack-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=123216","title":{"rendered":"Russia launches attack against Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_123218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123218\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/One-of-the-air-defense-bases-that-was-attacked-AP.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/One-of-the-air-defense-bases-that-was-attacked-AP-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/One-of-the-air-defense-bases-that-was-attacked-AP-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/One-of-the-air-defense-bases-that-was-attacked-AP-500x280.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/One-of-the-air-defense-bases-that-was-attacked-AP.png 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>One of the air defense bases that was attacked (AP)<\/b><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reports coming out of Ukraine indicate that the Russians have moved to attack Ukrainian positions. Their government claims that they&#8217;ve shot 6 Russian planes down and took two prisoners. Explosions were heard in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, early on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From the Associated Press:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine\u2019s government said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in a \u201cfull-scale war\u201d that could rewrite the geopolitical order and whose fallout already reverberated around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In unleashing Moscow\u2019s most aggressive action since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, President Vladimir Putin deflected global condemnation and cascading new sanctions \u2014 and chillingly referred to his country\u2019s nuclear arsenal. He threatened any foreign country attempting to interfere with \u201cconsequences you have never seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sirens rang out in Ukraine\u2019s capital, large explosions were heard there and in other cities, and people massed in train stations and took to roads, as the government said the former Soviet republic was seeing a long-anticipated invasion from the east, north and south. It reported more than 40 soldiers had been killed and dozens wounded so far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/live-news\/russia-ukraine-us-allies-sanctions\">Fox News<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-putin-attack-a05e7c4563ac94b963134bba83187d46\">Associated Press<\/a> has details, videos, photos, and updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports coming out of Ukraine indicate that the Russians have moved to attack Ukrainian positions. 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