Updated Feb 24, 2022, 11:06am EST
Topline
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” in Ukraine early Thursday, launching attacks in cities and forcing Ukrainians to flee the country or seek shelter in basements and subway stations as explosions were heard in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.
A woman and a child wait for a train to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio … [+]
Key Facts
Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser in the Ukrainian President’s Office, said more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers and 10 civilians had been killed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said Russia fired cruise and ballistic missiles targeted at infrastructure near major cities, including Kyiv and the second-largest city Kharkiv.
Long lines of cars formed in Kyiv as Ukrainians headed out of the city Thursday morning to find safety in parts of Ukraine closer to neighboring Poland and NATO troops.
Long lines of cars form in the Ukrainian capital as people try to leave the city.
A damaged radar, vehicle and equipment at a Ukrainian military facility outside Mariupol, Ukraine.
A wounded woman in the city of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast, after a Russian airstrike hit an apartment … [+]
A Ukrainian military track on fire after an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine.
People line up to withdraw cash from ATMs in Odessa, Ukraine.
People at a bus station in Kyiv as they try to leave the city.
A woman and a child wait for a train at a train station in Kyiv.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2022/02/24/in-photos-chaos-in-ukraine-cities-as-residents-try-to-withdraw-money-find-transportation-to-flee/