KYIV: Ukrainian troops strengthen security all around Kyiv On Sunday, digging trenches, blocking roads and making contact with civil defense units, as Russian forces bombed surrounding areas and attacked nearby towns and villages.
While armed forces and civilian volunteers excavated, thousands continued to try to flee the city of 3.4 million as fears of a full-fledged attack spread.
Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February and concentrated its heaviest attacks in the south and east of the country, besieging cities. Mariupol And Kharkiv There was further extensive damage and casualties with artillery fire and air strikes.
Kyiv has been spared its worst battle yet, but fierce fighting broke out in surrounding towns and villages, and Russia’s defense ministry on Sunday released footage of some of its tracked military vehicles near the capital.
Videos provided by Ukraine’s armed forces in the Kyiv region on Saturday showed Ukrainian efforts to defend the capital, with piles of sand and concrete slabs being laid on the main road while Ukrainian soldiers meticulously check passing cars. Of.
A small road was blocked by metal “hedgehog” anti-tank barriers, and machine gun positions were erected. Molotov Cocktails lined up on the side of the road, as civilians vowed to join the fight to defend Kyiv.
“We are 100% equipped,” said an unidentified soldier in the footage. “The conditions have been created, we have made them fit and we are just waiting to meet them here … the victory will be ours.”
Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation” designed not to capture territory but to destroy its neighbor’s military capabilities and capture what they perceived as dangerous nationalists.
In irpinAccording to Reuters eyewitnesses, men, women and children trying to escape armed conflicts in the area were forced to take cover, a town about 25 kilometers (16 mi) northwest of Kyiv.
Soldiers and fellow residents helped the elderly get into a bus full of frightened people, some terrified as they waited for safety.
mass migration
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said on Sunday that fighting in Europe’s fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II has prompted more than 1.5 million people to leave Ukraine and move to neighboring countries.
Millions more displaced internally are moving towards the relative security of western Ukraine.
Men of fighting age have been ordered to stay, and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on his people to do everything they can to drive out the Russians.
Katerina LaskariekA production company executive left his home city of Kyiv soon after the invasion began.
She arrived in a small village 50 km (31 mi) away where her family has a home, and lives there with her three-year-old son, SimonHer pregnant sister, who is due to give birth in two weeks, and their parents.
“To tell the truth, and it feels like 10 years,” she told Reuters via Zoom of the first 10 days of the war.
“Of course, I’m scared like everyone else, but I have so many people I’m responsible for. I’m responsible for my family, I’m responsible for my business,” he said.
“But to be honest, I thought I would be even more scared. Now I feel like a soldier. I feel like I have a lot of energy to fight, because I know we will win.”
While armed forces and civilian volunteers excavated, thousands continued to try to flee the city of 3.4 million as fears of a full-fledged attack spread.
Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February and concentrated its heaviest attacks in the south and east of the country, besieging cities. Mariupol And Kharkiv There was further extensive damage and casualties with artillery fire and air strikes.
Kyiv has been spared its worst battle yet, but fierce fighting broke out in surrounding towns and villages, and Russia’s defense ministry on Sunday released footage of some of its tracked military vehicles near the capital.
Videos provided by Ukraine’s armed forces in the Kyiv region on Saturday showed Ukrainian efforts to defend the capital, with piles of sand and concrete slabs being laid on the main road while Ukrainian soldiers meticulously check passing cars. Of.
A small road was blocked by metal “hedgehog” anti-tank barriers, and machine gun positions were erected. Molotov Cocktails lined up on the side of the road, as civilians vowed to join the fight to defend Kyiv.
“We are 100% equipped,” said an unidentified soldier in the footage. “The conditions have been created, we have made them fit and we are just waiting to meet them here … the victory will be ours.”
Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation” designed not to capture territory but to destroy its neighbor’s military capabilities and capture what they perceived as dangerous nationalists.
In irpinAccording to Reuters eyewitnesses, men, women and children trying to escape armed conflicts in the area were forced to take cover, a town about 25 kilometers (16 mi) northwest of Kyiv.
Soldiers and fellow residents helped the elderly get into a bus full of frightened people, some terrified as they waited for safety.
mass migration
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said on Sunday that fighting in Europe’s fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II has prompted more than 1.5 million people to leave Ukraine and move to neighboring countries.
Millions more displaced internally are moving towards the relative security of western Ukraine.
Men of fighting age have been ordered to stay, and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on his people to do everything they can to drive out the Russians.
Katerina LaskariekA production company executive left his home city of Kyiv soon after the invasion began.
She arrived in a small village 50 km (31 mi) away where her family has a home, and lives there with her three-year-old son, SimonHer pregnant sister, who is due to give birth in two weeks, and their parents.
“To tell the truth, and it feels like 10 years,” she told Reuters via Zoom of the first 10 days of the war.
“Of course, I’m scared like everyone else, but I have so many people I’m responsible for. I’m responsible for my family, I’m responsible for my business,” he said.
“But to be honest, I thought I would be even more scared. Now I feel like a soldier. I feel like I have a lot of energy to fight, because I know we will win.”