U.S. officials predicted that as soon as the sun rose on Ukraine Thursday morning, Russian missile strikes would be followed by a full-scale ground invasion. CNN appears to have video evidence to back that up. At about 6:48 a.m. local time, CNN reported, tanks rolled across the border from Belarus at Senkivka. About an hour earlier, CNN said Russian troops had landed at the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa.
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