Portal:Current events/2022 February 24

February 24, 2022 (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
  - 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    - Russian President Vladimir Putin orders a military operation to "demilitarize and de-Nazifiy" Ukraine. (CNN) (Business Insider)
    - Russian ballistic and cruise missiles strike multiple Ukrainian cities and airfields, including the capital Kyiv and Kharkiv. (CNN)
    - An attack on a military unit in Podilsk kills six people and wounds seven more. Another person is killed in the city of Mariupol. Nineteen more people are reported missing. (BBC)
    - Russian troops attack the port cities of Odessa and Mariupol in amphibious landings. (CNN)
    - Belarusian soldiers assist Russia in invading Ukraine. (CNN)
    - Ukraine confirms that Russian Ground Forces have entered Luhansk Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast and crossed the border from occupied Crimea. (The Business Standard)
    - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declares martial law across the country in response to the invasion. (TASS)
    - The Ukrainian Air Force says it is "repelling" Russian invaders. (BBC)
    - The Russian Armed Forces says its "lightning offensive" has crippled the Ukrainian military and suppressed its air defense systems. (TASS)
    - Ukraine says it has shot down five Russian warplanes and a helicopter, according to its Joint Centre of Control and Coordination. (First Post)
    - A senior Ukrainian government official says "hundreds" of Ukrainian troops have already been killed in Russian airstrikes. (The Wall Street Journal)
  - Reactions to the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
    - Russia–NATO relations
      - The Baltic states and Poland agree to trigger article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty in response to Russian aggression. (ERR)
      - Norbert Röttgen in a tweet posted by The Guardian writes that Germany should now allow defensive weapons to be supplied to Ukraine. He states that his previous hesitancy was "in order to keep channels of communication with Moscow open. That's over for now. What matters now is defence." (The Guardian)
    - The European Union says it will introduce the "strongest, harshest package" of sanctions on the Russian economy in response to the invasion. (AP)
Israel's role in the Syrian Civil War
- Israel fires several missiles towards Damascus in Syria. Around three Syrian soldiers are killed. (The Washington Post) (Times of Israel)