• Russia attacked Ukraine early Thursday morning.
• This map tracks reports of explosions across the country, as well as ground and sea assault. 
• Ukraine’s foreign minister said Russia “launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.”

Russia attacked Ukraine early on Thursday morning, with reports of explosions across the country as well as ground and sea assault.

Ukraine’s foreign minister described it as “a full-scale attack from multiple directions.“

The above map of some attacks was compiled by Insider from its own sources and some media reports.

Red entries are explosions, blue entries show attacks by sea, and yellow entries show attacks by land.

Here is a breakdown of the events. The last update was at 9:15 a.m. Eastern time, 4:12 p.m. in Ukraine.

1) Kyiv — The capital city was hit by numerous explosions, seen in photos and described in news reports. One source described to Insider hearing explosions and gunfire near its Boryspil international airport.

2) & 3) Kharviv —  A major city near the border with Russia was also hit with explosions. A source there told Insider they heard explosions. Russian troops were reported to have entered across the border just 20 miles from the city, The New York Times reported.

4) Kramatorsk — A city in eastern Ukraine where explosions were heard, according to The New York Times.

5) Dnipro — A city in central Ukraine. Ukrainian officials said missiles hit the city, according to The New York Times.

6) & 7) Odessa — A coastal city near the Russian-occupied Crimea territory. Two sources described told Insider they heard explosions. Regional authorities in Odessa said 18 people were killed in a missile attack, Reuters reported. Reuters also reported Russian troops landing by sea.

8) & 9) Mariupol — A coastal city to the south of Ukraine. Reuters reported explosions heard and Russians troops landing by sea, according to Ukrainian media.

10) Chernihiv — A city in northern Ukraine near the border with Belarus where Russian troops have entered by land, according to Reuters.

12) Lutsk — A city in northwestern Ukraine where explosions were heard, according to The New York Times.

13) Ivano-Frankivsk — A city in western Ukraine where explosions were heard, according to The New York Times.

14) & 15) Kherson — A port city in south Ukraine. Explosions heard, according to The New York Time. BBC reported troops entering from Crimea, an area that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Russia’s conflict with Ukraine has been rumbling for years but escalated dramatically in recent weeks.

Russia assembled vast numbers of troops around Ukraine — as many as 190,000, per US estimates — in the largest military operation in the region since World War II.

On Monday, Putin recognized the claims to independence of the breakaway Luhansk and Donetsk areas of Ukraine, ordering troops there for what he described as a limited peace-keeping operation in the east of the country.

Less than 72 hours later, Putin authorized a full-scale attack on Ukraine. In the hours that followed, explosions pounded cities around Ukraine, many hundreds of miles from the previous conflict zone. Ukrainian officials reported fighting on its borders with Russia, and dozens of casualties.

The new wave of hostilities expanded the clash from a limited incursion over disputed land into the most serious armed conflict in Europe for at least a decade. 

Insider’s live blog of the invasion is covering developments as they happen.