This article was updated February 24, 2023
"THIS IS WAR," read the front page ofGazeta Wyborcza. Alongside the terse, all-caps headline, the Polish daily featured a photo of Olena Kurilo, a teacher from Chuguev whose blood-covered face became one of the striking images of the beginning of the Ukraine invasion.
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A day after simultaneous attacks were launched from the south, east and north of the country, by land and by air, some press outlets chose to feature images of tanks, explosions, death and destruction that hit multiple cities across Ukraine, while others focused on the man behind the so-called "special military operation": Vladimir Putin.
With the battle arriving at the gates of the capital Kyiv, after the first 24 hours of combat, the most dangerous conflict in Europe since World War II had begun. French daily Libération may have best captured the world's reaction: "The Unthinkable."
While many Ukrainian dailies have seen interruptions in their print editions, the leading opposition newspaper in Russia, Novaya Gazeta, in an act of solidarity with its neighbors, published its latest paper in both Russian and Ukrainian. It's the first in our international collection of front pages below:
Izvestia
UNITED STATES - TIME
TIME
The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The New York Times
The New York Times
UK - The Sun
The Sun
The Financial Times
The Financial Times
The Economist
The Economist
GERMANY - Frankfurter Allgemeine
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel
POLAND - Gazeta Wyborcza
Gazeta Wyborcza
Fakt
Fakt
Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
SLOVAKIA - Dennik
Dennik
FRANCE - Libération
BELGIUM - Le Soir
Le Soir
ITALY - Internazionale
ARGENTINA - La Nacion
La Nacion
BRAZIL - O Globo
O Globo
JAPAN - The Okinawa Times
The Okinawa Times
CHINA - Shanghai Daily
Shanghai Daily
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