Satellite images show 40-mile-long convoy of Russian vehicles closing in on Kyiv
KUMASI, 1st March, (Futball Surgery)– Satellite images show a Russian military convoy stretching about 40 miles – far bigger than initially thought – as troops close in on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.
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Satellite images show a Russian military convoy stretching about 40 miles – far bigger than initially thought – as troops close in on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.
The head of the convoy – which includes armoured vehicles, tanks and artillery – is believed to be around 15 miles (24 km) from the city.
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The images also show evidence of fighting outside Kyiv, including destroyed vehicles and a damaged bridge.
Helicopter units and more ground forces are also shown in southern Belarus, less than 20 miles from the Ukraine border.
Despite the approaching threat, Ukraine’s President Zelenskiyy said in a video late on Monday that he remained determined to hold the city.
“For the enemy, Kyiv is the key target,” he said.
“We did not let them break the defence of the capital, and they send saboteurs to us… We will neutralise them all.”
Mr Zelenskiyy also said it was time for the West to consider a no-fly zone over Ukraine – something it’s very reluctant to do because it could escalate into direct war with Russia.
As the invasion enters its sixth day, Ukraine authorities confirmed at least 70 soldiers were killed on Sunday after Russian shelling of a military base in Okhtyrka – a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv.
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Regional head Dmytro Zhyvytsky posted photos of a charred building and rescuers searching rubble.
Russian forces also continue to attack Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, with its foreign minister tweeting that “barbaric” missile strikes had targeted residential areas and the centre of town.
Video from Tuesday morning showed a huge fireball after a missile hit a government building in the city’s Freedom Square.
Several cars were driving by the building when it was struck.
Dozens of civilians have been killed in Kharkiv, according to authorities, and there is video evidence of the use of banned cluster bombs.
An adviser to President Zelenskiyy tweeted that Russia is now shelling city centres “inflicting direct missile and artillery strikes at residential and government areas”.
Mykhailo Podolyak said the aim was “mass panic, civilian casualties, destruction of infrastructure” but said Ukraine was “fighting with dignity”.
In other developments:
• Port city Mariupol under constant shelling with women and children killed, says mayor
• More than 520,000 refugees have already fled Ukraine – UN
• Pro-Russian separatists were taking control of Nikolayevka, in the eastern Donetsk region overnight
• People in the resort town of Berdyansk yelled at Russian occupiers to go home
On the border with Belarus, the first round of talks between Russia and Ukraine concluded on Monday with no agreement.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said the Russian delegation had “a very biased view of the destructive processes it has launched”.
Ukraine sent its defence minister and other top officials, but the Russians were led by cultural adviser Vladimir Medinsky – perhaps a sign of how Moscow viewed the talks.
Mr Medinsky said the sides had “found certain points on which common positions could be foreseen”, adding that talks would continue in the coming days on the Polish-Belarusian border.
President Putin earlier on Monday called the West an “empire of lies”, angry over the economic effects of sanctions that saw the ruble plunge in trading.
World leaders also met at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, where ambassadors backed a proposal calling on Russia to stop its assault.
Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he hoped talks between the sides would “produce not only an immediate halt to the fighting, but also a path towards a diplomatic solution”.
He called Mr Putin’s decision on Sunday to put Russia’s nuclear deterrent on high alert a “chilling development”.
Ukraine’s UN ambassador referenced Hitler when he said of Mr Putin: “If he wants to kill himself, he doesn’t have to use a nuclear arsenal – he has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in 1945”.
The West believes Moscow wants to replace Ukraine’s government with a more compliant regime but despite their advantage in numbers Russian troops have so far found it difficult to take key cities.
At least 102 civilians have been killed since the invasion started, according to the UN’s human rights chief, but the real figure is likely to be much higher.
