As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reaches the 100-day mark, The Post looks back at the defining moments of Europe’s biggest war in eight decades:Moments after Russian President Vladimir Putin took to state TV to declare a “special military operation” to “denazify” Ukraine — a nation with a democratically elected Jewish president — Russian forces began pummeling Kyiv and other major cities from land, sea and air. Troops attacking via neighboring Belarus seized the doomed Chernobyl nuclear plant and tried to take Hostomel airport on the outskirts of Kyiv. Ukrainian forces repulsed the latter assault — the first sign that all was not going according to Moscow’s plan.
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