As Russia Invades, Ukrainians Weigh Fight or Flight
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today, the world has been watching an all-out invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:12.8 | Russian military forces have entered the country from all directions. |
| 0:18.4 | Air strikes hit cities across the country, even in the west, close to the Polish border. |
| 0:26.3 | Russian forces took hold of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and ground forces moved in |
| 0:32.4 | from the north, south, and east. |
| 0:36.9 | Our colleague Brett Forest is on the ground there. |
| 0:40.3 | It is a full-scale attack across the entire country. |
| 0:43.3 | Russia seems to have taken a strategy of, if you will, death by a thousand cuts dropping |
| 0:49.2 | in or pushing in, the smaller numbers of forces in many, many places across the country, |
| 0:54.6 | forcing Ukraine to fight on many, many different fronts and stretching its resources very thin. |
| 1:00.6 | There are reports of dozens of Ukrainian casualties, including civilians. |
| 1:08.0 | Russian President Vladimir Putin said there was no other way to defend Russia other than |
| 1:12.8 | to invade. |
| 1:13.8 | He's indicated that he wants to topple the government in the capital Kiev, and Russian troops |
| 1:19.7 | are moving in on the city. |
| 1:22.4 | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the country won't give up its freedom. |
| 1:29.2 | And on the ground, people are bracing for what their future may hold. |
| 1:35.6 | This is a devastating event. |
| 1:38.4 | People just don't know what will come. |
| 1:40.5 | They don't know what life will be like under Russian occupation, if that's indeed what's |
| 1:47.0 | coming. |
| 1:48.0 | And it's possible it could be coming very quickly. |
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