‘Welcome to hell’: will Russia topple Ukraine in full-scale war?

Kyiv instructs military to inflict ‘maximum losses’ on Moscow’s invading army

Black smoke rises above a military airport in Chuguev in eastern Ukraine
Black smoke rises above a bombed military airport in Chuguev in eastern Ukraine
(Image credit: Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images)

Vladimir Putin has triggered what could become Europe’s largest conflict since the 1940s by giving the order for Russian troops to begin a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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