The largest war in Europe since 1945 started on February 24th 2022. Putin ordered the Russian army to undertake a full-scale invasion of Ukraine – bombing cities, bringing artillery and missiles into this peaceful nation, killing innocent and displacing millions.
Over the last eight years since Russian’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas regions of Ukraine Putin has increased his efforts to further destabilise our nation.
Brave Ukrainian military resistance Putin’s Russian army will continue.
On Monday, Ukrainian civilians continued to flee cities and towns to reach safety, while others remain trapped without power and with little access to food and water.
Russian forces surrounding the southern port city of Mariupol have destroyed a maternity hospital, Ukraine says.
Ukraine managed to carry out its first mass evacuation on Tuesday, bussing an estimated 5,000 civilians from Sumy to Poltava, in the centre. The convoy took almost 12 hours to reach the city, forced to drive a long way round areas of active fighting.