World War 3 fears grow as Russian-Ukraine crisis could escalate global conflict
dailyrecord.co.ukRussia has began a war on Europe by crossing the Ukrainian border and targeting key parts of the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
Despite weeks of tension with Russia deploying troops on the Ukrainian border, the full scale invasion of the country in the early hours of this morning surprised many.
Missiles were launched at airports and military bases, attack helicopters hovered above the capital Kyiv and soldiers fought by the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
It was this last skirmish, in lands made baron by the meltdown of 1986, which prompted President Zelenskyy to tweet: “This is a declaration of war against the whole of Europe.” At the end of 2021 a Ukrainian government minister Yuliia Laputina predicted that a full invasion of Ukraine by Russia could trigger World War 3, according to Mirror Online.
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