Ukraine update: Revisiting the Day One war update

Russian forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. For historical purposes, I thought it would be interesting to go back and revisit that first day. I had spent the entire night up, furiously consuming fragmented information coming through Twitter and Telegram sources. Things looked bleak that night. I slept little, but at first light it was already clear Russia wasn’t moving as quickly as it expected. I wrote up the following state of play at 3 PM PT.