Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Russian troops stormed toward Ukraine's capital on Feb. 26, and street fighting broke out as city officials urged residents to take shelter. The country's president refused an American offer to evacuate, insisting that he would stay. "The fight is here," he said.

Zelensky said that 137 “heroes,” including 10 military officers, had been killed and 316 people wounded

U.S. actor and director Sean Penn is in Kyiv making a documentary about Russia's invasion, the Ukrainian president's office said on Feb. 24.

The double Oscar-winner was photographed attending a government press conference in Kyiv, and could be seen meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky in a video posted to the Ukrainian president's official Instagram account.

The West and its institutions, particularly NATO, should have taken more decisive steps on the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian crisis, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, stressing that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs more concrete support than advices from Western capitals.

137 Ukrainians have died since the start of the Russian offensive, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

According to him, Moscow is hitting not only military targets but also civilian targets. European Union leaders have agreed in principle to impose new economic sanctions on Russia. The United States did the same earlier.

Russian military troops have entered Ukraine, but they do not refer to it as the beginning of the war. After Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the "beginning of a special military action" on Thursday morning, grenades, shootings and sirens resounded all over Ukraine throughout the day. On the first day of the Russian attack, 137 Ukrainian citizens were killed.

In an interview with ABC television, Anthony Blinken said that "part of Russia's plan" is to attack the capital Kyiv and other major cities in Ukraine, as well as launch a multilateral attack on the country from the northern, eastern and southern borders.

Second day of Fighting in Ukraine, Clashes on the Outskirts of Kyiv

Sanctions imposed on Russia are not enough, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Reuters that Russia had resumed its missile strikes early this morning.

According to him, the attacks are aimed at both military and civilian targets.

Russia pressed its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital on Feb. 25 after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides in an attack that could rewrite the global post-Cold War security order.

Russian President announced this morning that he ordered a "special operation" in Ukraine, after which there was literally additional chaos in that country, but also in the whole world. Russian tanks entered the territory of Ukraine, and according to world media, several Ukrainian cities were shelled, and according to reports from the field, bombs are also falling around Kiev.