It’s the early morning of February 24th, 2022. In the border village of Dniprovske, Ukrainian 105th Border Detachment soldiers sleep in their barracks, unaware of the approaching storm. A missile from a drone strikes without warning, wounding six and marking the start of Russia's full-scale invasion. Despite the chaos, the border guards act swiftly, blowing up the mined bridge across the Dnipro River to slow the enemy's advance. Along the Chernihiv Region border, similar scenes unfold— Russian artillery, drones, and aviation hammer all the Ukrainian border checkpoints from both Russia and Belarus. And this is how the battle for Nothern Ukraine and its key fortress, Chernihiv, begins.