Fears about Russian President Putin’s intentions were mounting for months, and by the day before the war began, alarms were sounding loudly in Kyiv and Western capitals. Political, military and intelligence officials describe what they did that first day.
Shortly after 4 a.m. local time on Feb. 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. This oral history describes the first day of the war as recalled by Ukrainian, American and European leaders and senior political, military and intelligence officials.
In the category of walking and chewing gum at the same time, we actually had a [national security] principals meeting that afternoon on Iran. Ukraine's permanent representative to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, walks to his seat during an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council in New York on Feb. 23, 2022.
In Ukraine, Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky woke up to the ringing of his cellphone. The country’s border guard chief told him that Russian forces were swarming across the border in the northeast in an apparent drive to reach Kyiv. Monastyrsky called President Volodymyr Zelensky and said, “It has started.”What I understood in that moment, when I was getting dressed, I thought about the rockets flying over my children, over all of our children.
At some point that first day, the president gathered us all together. There were a lot of us in that bunker — maybe 120 people including the security guards. He said, ‘Look, we’re staying. From tomorrow, it may be that we don’t have a chance to leave. Everyone has their own life and needs to make a decision for themselves. Choose to either stay or go somewhere safer.’ … The whole situation felt like a dream, so I went to another room and called my wife.
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