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Russia's attempt to conquer its democratic neighbour Ukraine has commenced following an overwhelming build-up of troops and military hardware which encircled the country's northern, eastern and southern borders.
With hundreds of innocent civilians already among the dead, many hundreds of thousands seeking refuge have fled westwards.
Left with little option, Ukraine's president declared martial law, obliging all men aged between 18 and 60 to take up arms and repel the invaders.
Pavlo Starovoit is one such volunteer fighter.
Having currently ruled out putting forces on the ground to help Ukraine, the EU and NATO are bankrolling Ukraine's defence.
The EU's taking the historic step of funding arms to defend a country, pledging 500 million dollars for Ukraine's arms purchases.
Beyond this, international restrictions on Russian assets and oligarchs have included freezing overseas accounts and removal from the SWIFT financial service which facilitates cross-border transactions.
This severely hampers Russian banks' ability to move capital.
Meanwhile, global businesses extracting themselves from Russian markets has set the ruble tumbling.
To counter disinformation, countries are interrupting Russian media broadcasts.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also declared Russian flights barred from EU airspace.
Waging an unwarranted war on a democracy has raised the ire of ordinary people across the planet, with protests even taking place in Russian cities, where citizens face consequences for voicing their opposition to Putin.
Melisa joined the crowds protesting in St Petersburg.
In reply, Putin's signalled his willingness to deploy Russia's nuclear arsenal, crossing a new threshold, which garnered fierce criticism from the United States.
Refusing to be cowed by these threats, Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, reiterated his country's resolve.
Even in the heat of battle, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy's statement, delivered in Russian, expressed a desire to reach forward for peace in a bid to end this unjust conflict.
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