Russia launches ‘full-scale war’ in Ukraine

Ukrainian soldiers ride in a military vehicle in Mariupol, Ukraine (Sergei Grits/AP)

Russia has launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine, hitting cities and bases with air strikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee.

Ukraine’s government said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in what it called a “full-scale war” that could rewrite the geopolitical order and whose fallout has already reverberated around the globe.