Kyiv says multiple sites attacked across country

Ukraine said multiple border sites and cities are under attack from Russian forces in what it called a full-scale invasion that includes air strikes on the capital, Kyiv.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had ordered a special military operation to support separatists in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, and claimed he did not plan to occupy the country. 

The U.S. and its allies have for weeks warned of the potential for an attack, including on Kyiv, estimating Putin had massed 150,000 troops on the border. 

Putin was condemned by U.S. President Joe Biden, who called his actions an "unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces” on the people of Ukraine, and by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who said it was a "serious threat to Euro-Atlantic security.”