section_path: Events/Initial invasion (24 February – 7 April 2022)
section_name: Initial invasion (24 February – 7 April 2022)
paragraph_text: Initial invasion (24 February – 7 April 2022)
  
  The invasion began on 24 February, launched out of Belarus to target Kyiv, and from the northeast against the city of Kharkiv. The southeastern front was conducted as two separate spearheads, from Crimea and the southeast against Luhansk and Donetsk.