title: Chapter 12. The first day of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war: an attempt to reconstruct the events
abstract: The article attempts to retrace the main events of the first day of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. It began at around 3.40–4.00 a.m. on February 24, 2022. The armed forces of the Russian Federation attacked the borders in the regions adjacent to Russia, Belarus, the occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Around 5 a.m., Russian President Vladimir Putin released a statement in which he deceptively justified the reason for the full-scale invasio