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At noon that day, the Ukrainian authorities officially declared a nationwide state of war, and Kyiv imposed a 72-hour citywide curfew.
This sentence gets both the timing of Ukraine’s wartime legal regime and Kyiv’s curfew wrong. Official Ukrainian sources say martial law took effect at 5:30 a.m. on February 24, 2022, and Kyiv’s curfew announced that day ran from 22:00 to 07:00, not for 72 hours.
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Official Ukrainian government sources contradict both parts of this claim.
First, Ukraine’s wartime legal regime was not first declared at noon on February 24, 2022. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine states that President Volodymyr Zelensky declared martial law from 5:30 on February 24, 2022 for 30 days.
Second, Kyiv did not impose a 72-hour citywide curfew on February 24. The official Kyiv city portal says that on February 24, 2022 at 17:08, Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced a curfew from 22:00 to 7:00. Kyiv later introduced longer curfews on other dates, but the curfew imposed on the first day of the full-scale invasion was overnight, not 72 hours.
So the article’s sentence is inaccurate on both the timing of the nationwide wartime measure and the length of Kyiv’s curfew on that day.
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- Martial law introduced
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky declared martial law. According to the Presidential Decree, which is introduced from 5:30 on February 24, 2022 for a period of 30 days.
- Віталій Кличко: Київ відсьогодні запроваджує комендантську годину. Діятиме вона з 22:00 до 7:00 - Портал Києва
Київ від сьогодні запроваджує комендантську годину. Діятиме вона з 22:00 - до 7:00. Про це повідомив мер столиці Віталій Кличко в своєму Telegram-каналі.