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Today in Focus

The day Putin invaded Ukraine

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Russia has launched an invasion of Ukraine on several fronts, raising fears it could escalate into the most serious conflict Europe has seen since the second world war. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:09.0

Today, war in Europe.

0:11.0

Our correspondence report on a day of chaos, confusion and tragedy in Ukraine.

0:17.0

The Guardian, who was the most powerful and most powerful, was the most powerful and most powerful.

0:26.0

Late on Wednesday evening, Guardian correspondent Emma Graham Harrison got on a sleeper train from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.

0:33.0

We've been running through this beautiful countryside that is forest with huge clumps of mistletoe and the trees.

0:40.0

There's huge plowed fields of blacker.

0:43.0

She was heading to the city of Mariapol near the Russian border.

0:47.0

She'd never get there.

0:49.0

The decision to make a special military operation.

0:53.0

At 4.30 a.m., Ukraine time, Vladimir Putin appeared on TV to announce a special military operation.

1:02.0

As soon as he started speaking, bombs were falling on Ukraine.

1:06.0

Guys, save her!

1:09.0

Get my loose!

1:11.0

It was the beginning of an all-out invasion.

1:13.0

Russian tanks and troops poured over the border.

1:16.0

Cruise missiles and air strikes hit military infrastructure and air basins across Ukraine.

1:25.0

This was the worst case scenario.

1:28.0

Major cities were being bombed, including the capital, Kiev and Mariapol, where Emma's train was heading.

1:34.0

She turned back, but I guess just wondering what's going to be waiting for us there.

1:38.0

Because, you know, we've been told that people there, the air raid sirens have gone off, people are in shelters.

1:43.0

There's already been a tax on and around the airport.

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