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These are images of a battle that could have changed the course of the war in Ukraine. On February 24, 2022, as Russian troops crossed the country's borders, around thirty Kremlin helicopters packed with elite paratroopers headed towards Hostomel airport, a few dozen kilometers from Kyiv. Their goal? To use these runways to land reinforcements on the night of February 24-25. Enough troops, according to Moscow's plans, to take the Ukrainian capital before the arrival of reinforcements from Donbass or before the international community could react. An attempt at a Russian blitzkrieg, which the Ukrainian general staff would quickly understand, throwing all its available forces into the fighting. After its account of the Battle of Hostomel, CheckNews recounts with the video service of Libération these three days that changed the war in Ukraine: images of the assault, interviews with experts, and the story of a Ukrainian paratrooper who fought at the airport. Subscribe to the newspaper Libération ???? http://abo.liberation.fr Follow Libé on Facebook ???? http://fb.com/liberation Follow Libé on Twitter ???? / libe Follow Libé on Instagram ???? / liberationfr