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1/16 🧵 Last Day of Peace: the final 24 hours before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This is a thread with the timeline of main events that occurred in the last 24 hours before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Provided in local time - Eastern European Time (EET).

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2/16 February 23, 2022:

9:53am - Kyiv told citizens not to visit Russia and warn Ukrainians already there to leave immediately;
10:00am - Conscription of reservists from 18 to 60 years of age begins in Ukraine;
10:46am - Documents being burned in Russian Consulate in Lviv. https://t.co/FTVbfsGyi0

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3/16

11:26am - Security strengthened in the Kharkiv Oblast;
12:05pm - NDSC asks Verkhovna Rada to introduce the state of emergency across whole Ukraine;
1:00pm - Presidents of Poland and Lithuania, Duda and Nausėda, arrive in Kyiv and meet with Ukraine's President Zelensky. https://t.co/2xV7RAOgCG

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4/16

1:30pm - The evacuation of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv;
2:03pm - Ukrainian State Border Service imposes restrictions on staying in areas bordering Russia and Belarus;
2:40pm - National Guard and police start patrolling Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant in Kherson Oblast; https://t.co/48EPqmluq9

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5/16

4:35pm - the US has informed President Zelensky that Russia is preparing to launch an invasion within the next 48 hours;
5:54pm - Ukrainian government institutions hit by massive cyber-attack;
7:04pm - Two Russian military convoys spotted heading towards Donetsk;

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6/16

8:00pm - The US assesses Russia has 100% of its aviation & maritime assets needed for the invasion in place - 80% of the ground forces around Ukraine deployed in forward positions;
9:40pm - Verkhovna Rada approves the introduction of state of emergency across Ukraine. https://t.co/GOtHIGPDNW

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7/16

10:00pm - Kremlin's spokesman Peskov announces that the heads of the so-called Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics requested military assistance from Russia;
10:20pm - Russia evacuates Titan chemicals plant in Armyansk, located in the northern part of Crimea. https://t.co/iIoZ7pNhsP

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8/16

10:20pm - Russia has closed the crossing point on the border of Crimea and Ukraine's Kherson Oblast; Only people with Russian passport were allowed to enter Crimea;
11:30pm - Reports about the activity of Russian electronic warfare systems in Donbas.

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9/16

11:50pm - Pentagon says that more Russian troops are moving into the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.

February 24, 2022:

00:10am - Ukraine closes the airports of Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia; runways blocked by trailers to deny possibility of enemy aircraft landing. https://t.co/hB6vvWv0WH

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10/16

00:20am - Ukraine requests a UN Security Council meeting;
00:45am - President Zelensky releases a speech in which he says that he attempted to call Putin but didn't receive an answer; he also appeals to the Russians to stop the war. https://t.co/btBBk8keJK

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11/16

00:45am - President Zelensky says Russia approved a military incursion into Ukraine;
1:00am - Russia closes the airspace along the northeast Ukrainian border for civil aviation;
2:20am - Blinken says Russia is putting "final touches" on forces for a "full-on invasion." https://t.co/B2XjhIDRaA

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12/16

4:00am - US RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV concludes its final reconnaissance mission over Ukraine;
4:00am - Russian Tupolev Tu-160 and Tu-95 strategic bombers armed with Kh-101 cruise missiles are in the air; heavy radio traffic monitored on 8131kHz USB.

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13/16

4:05am - Kalanchak checkpoint located on the border of Ukraine's Kherson Oblast and Crimea is attacked by Russian spetsnaz;
4:15am - Russian military leaders went to their command center, and cyberattacks against Ukraine are underway, according to a US official. https://t.co/J2CjJXFpIK

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14/16

4:15am - Ukrainian airspace has been closed;
4:30am - UN Security Council meeting requested by Ukraine begins in New York. In a desperate appeal, UN Secretary-General António Guterres asks Putin to bring troops back to Russia https://t.co/mL5gJhxnUq

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15/16

4:48am - Russian President Putin starts his televised address and announces the beginning of the "special military operation" in Ukraine.
4:50am - Ukraine's ambassador to the UN declares that it's too late to speak about de-escalation, as Putin "declared war." https://t.co/HuC6NoEntD

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16/16

5:00am - Explosions reported in major Ukrainian cities as the Russian invasion begins.
5:00am - Ukraine's ambassador to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya tolds his Russian counterpart Vasily Nebenzya: "There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell" https://t.co/Jgged5cABF

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