Ukraine was officially using US-made kamikaze Switchblade 300 drones in the war against Russia, and a second piece of evidence that Ukraine’s armed forces are using weapons from recent deliveries to them, namely the Brimstone naval missile delivered from Britain.

Characteristic in this case is the fact that Brimstone is a naval missile, but Ukraine has received from Britain a revised version of the launch. After British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised Ukraine a “new weapon” in mid-April, many speculated that it would be US Harpoon missiles. The US government was expected to allow Britain to donate them without any problems.

On 21 February 2022, the Russian government claimed that Ukrainian shelling had destroyed an FSB border facility on the Russia Ukraine border, and claimed that it had killed 5 Ukrainian soldiers who tried to cross into Russian territory.

On the same day, the Russian government formally recognized the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR as independent states, according to Putin not only in their de-facto controlled areas, but the Ukrainian Oblasts as a whole, and Putin ordered Russian troops, including tanks, to enter the regions.

On 24 February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine by Russian Armed Forces previously concentrated along the border.

The invasion followed by targeted airstrikes of military buildings in the country, as well as tanks entering via the Belarus border.