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The Russian

army

has attacked nine regions of

Ukraine

on Thursday, mostly military infrastructure, airports and airfields.

"The geography of the attacks is as follows:

Ivano-Frankivsk

,

Khmelnitsky

,

Chernigov

,

Kharkov

,

Kiev

,

Odessa

,

Nikolaev

,

Kherson

,

Kramatorsk

and along the line of separation of forces" in

Donbas

, the army reported in a statement.

release.

Of those Russian targets, the only one in

Donbas

is the city of

Kramatorsk

, considered the Ukrainian military base in the

Donetsk

region .

In addition,

Odessa

is the most important base of the Ukrainian

Black Sea

fleet and

Kherson

is the region bordering the Ukrainian peninsula of

Crimea

.

Russian President Vladimir Putin "has practically declared

war on Ukraine

. There were no reasons for it, the reasons are false," says the official note.

"As for the attacks: the Russian Armed Forces have begun to massively bomb cities, mainly military infrastructure, airports and airfields," he stresses.

There have been "small enemy offensives" in the

Kharkov

,

Chernihiv

and

Volyn

regions , but "they have been repelled", he adds.

He also points out that the Ukrainian president,

Volodymyr Zelensky

, has issued the corresponding orders to counter Russian attacks and has imposed martial law.

"Today

Russia

has begun the invasion of

Ukraine

.

Putin

has declared war on

Ukraine

and the entire democratic world. He wants to destroy my state,"

Zelensky

said in his latest intervention on

Facebook

, in which he stressed that the Ukrainian army has already resisted "the first blow" and is responding "with dignity".

"We know the strength of the

Ukrainian

Armed Forces . We are brave. We are invincible. We are Ukrainians," he said.

The Ukrainian Army has a quarter of a million men, to which must be added hundreds of thousands of reservists, volunteer and paramilitary groups, and members of territorial defense units.

By contrast, in 2014, when war broke out in

Donbas

,

Ukraine

had only 140,000 men and a few thousand reservists.

Currently, the Russian army has more than a million men and tens of thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, as well as thousands of artillery pieces, planes and helicopters, not counting its nuclear and hypersonic arsenal.

Before the Russian attack,

Kiev

estimated that there were 150,000 Russian soldiers deployed on the Ukrainian border between land, sea and air troops.

In announcing the recognition of the self-proclaimed breakaway republics of

Donetsk

and

Lugansk

,

Putin

assured that the current Ukrainian state includes "historically Russian areas".

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