Russian strikes hit near airports in Western Ukraine on friday as the military offensive expanded, and the troops ofinvasion kept up pressure on the capital Kyiv and the besieged port city of Mariupol.
The air strikes on Lutsk military aerodrome left two Ukrainian soldiers dead and six people injured, according to head of the surrounding Volyn regionYouri Pohulyayko.
The strikes also targeted an airport near Ivano-Frankivsk, where residents were ordered to take shelter after a air Raid alert, said Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv.
New satellite photos meanwhile seemed show a massive convoy outside the Ukrainian capital had stirred up out in nearby towns and forests Kyiv with artillery pieces raised for firing in another potentially worrying move.
the photos emerged in the middle more international efforts to isolate and sanction Russia, especially after a deadly air strike on a maternity in The harbor city of Mariupol which Western and Ukrainian officials have decried as a war crime. The United States and other nations were set to announce the revocation on Friday of Russia’s “most favored nation” trade status, which would be allow tariffs to be imposed on Russian imports.
Unsubject to sanctions, Russia has maintained up son bombing raid of Mariupol while Kyiv braced for an assault, son mayor boasting that the capital had practically become a fortress protected by armed civilians.
Satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies showed that the 40-mile (64 kilometer) convoy of vehiclestanks and artillery broke up and have been redeployed, the company said. Armored units have been sighted in cities near Antonov airport north of the city. Some of the vehicles moved into the forests, Maxar reported, with towed howitzers nearby in open position fire.
The convoy had massed outside the city early last week, but son advance appeared to stall according to reports of food and fuel shortages circulated. US officials said Ukrainian troops also targeted the convoy with anti-tank missiles.
However, the immediacy of the menace of Kyiv was unclear. A US defense official Speaking on state of anonymity said Russian forces moving towards Kyiv had advanced about 5 kilometers in the past 24 hours, with some elements as close as 15 kilometers from the city.
the official gave no indication that the convoy had dispersed or otherwise repositioned in an important way some say vehicles have been seen moving off the road in the tree line in The last days.
In Mariupol, a southern seaport of 430,000, the situation grew increasingly dire as civilians trapped inside the city scratched for food and fuel. More than 1,300 people is dead in the 10 day siege of the frigid citysaid Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
Residents do not have heat or telephone service, and many have no electricity. Nighttime temperatures are regularly below icy, and daytime ones hover normally just Above. The bodies are buried in mass graves. The streets are littered with burned-out cars, broken glass and splintered trees.
“They have one clear in order to hold Mariupol hostage, mock him, bomb him and constantly bomb him,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. in son nightly video address to the nation. He said the Russians started a tank attack where there should be a humanitarian corridor.
Firefighters attempted to free a trapped boy on Thursday in the rubble. One grabbed the main boy. His eyes blinked, but he was otherwise still. It was not clear if he survived. Nearby, to a mutilated truck, a wrapped woman in a blue blanket quivers at the sound of an explosion.
Grocery store stores and the pharmacies were emptied a few days ago by people rupture in to stock up, according to a local official with the Red Cross, Sasha Volkov. A black market East operating for vegetables, meat is not available, and people steal gasoline from cars, Volkov said.
The places protected from the bombardments are hard to find, with reserved basements for women and children, he said. Residents, Volkov said, are turning on one another: “People have started to attack One and the other for food.”
An Aleksander Ivanov at theair exhausted pulled a loaded cart with Bags down a hole street flanked by damaged buildings.
“I do not have home more. That’s why I am moving,” he said. “It doesn’t exist anymore. It was hit by a mortar.
Repeated attempts to send in food and medicine and the evacuation of civilians were thwarted by Russian shelling, Ukrainian authorities said.
“They want for destroy the people of Mariupol. They want to starve them to death,” Vereshchuk said. “It’s a war crime.”
Russian-backed separatists captured Ukraine city of Volnovakha north of the besieged sea port of Azov of Mariupol, the RIA news the agency quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying on Friday. Volnovakha is strategically important as the northern gateway to Mariupol
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Friday that Russian forces had destroyed 3,213 Ukrainian military installations since launch of what Russia calls a “special military transaction” in Ukraine.
The number of refugees fleeing the country exceeded 2.3 millions and some 100,000 people were evacuated during the past two days from seven cities under Russian blockade in the north and center of the country, including Kyiv suburbs, Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy told Russian leaders that the invasion will turn against on them as their economy is strangled. Western sanctions have already dealt a severe blow, causing the ruble to fall, foreign companies to flee and prices to fall. rise clearly.
“You will certainly be prosecuted for complicity in war crimes,” said Zelenskyy in a video address, warning that, “You will be hated by Russian citizens.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the remarks, saying the country had already suffered sanctions.
“We will overcome them,” he said in a televised meeting of government officials. However, he acknowledged that the sanctions create “some challenges.”
In addition to those who fled the country, millions were kicked out of their homes inside Ukraine. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said about 2 millions people, half the population of the metropolitan areahave left the capital.
“All streetall house…is fortified,” he said. ” Same people who in their lives never intended to change clothes, now they are in uniform with machine guns in their hands.”
Thursday, a 14-year-an old girl named Katya was recovering in the Central District Hospital of Brovary on The suburbs of Kyiv after her family were ambushed as they tried to flee area. She was shot in the main when their car was raked with gunshots coming from a roadside forest, told him mother, who identified herself only as Nina.
Girls father, who frantically chased from ambush on soufflé-out tires, underwent surgery. His wife said he was shot in the head and had two blown fingers off.
Western officials said Russian forces had made little progress on ground in in recent days and are experiencing heavier casualties and stiffer Ukrainian resistance than Moscow apparently anticipated. But Putin’s forces used air power and artillery to hit Ukrainian cities.
Early in by day, Mariupol city advice posted a video showing a convoy he said was bringing in food and medicine. But as night fell, it was unclear whether these buses had reached the city.
One child was among three people kill in the hospital airstrike on Wednesday. Seventeen people were also injured, including women waiting for give birth, doctors and children buried in the rubble. Pictures of the attack, with Pregnant women covered in dust and blood, dominated news reports in numerous countries.
French President Emmanuel Macron called on the attack “a shameful and immoral act of war.’ British Armed Forces ministerJames Heappey, said that while the hospital was hit by blind fire or deliberately targeted, “it’s a war crime.”
US Vice President Kamala Harris, on a visit to Poland neighboring Ukraine, sustained appeals for a international investigating war crimes invasion saying, “The eyes of the world are on this war and what Russia did in terms of this aggression and these atrocities.
Russian strikes hit near airports in Western Ukraine on friday as the military offensive expanded, and the troops ofinvasion kept up pressure on the capital Kyiv and the besieged port city of Mariupol.
The air strikes on Lutsk military aerodrome left two Ukrainian soldiers dead and six people injured, according to head of the surrounding Volyn regionYouri Pohulyayko.
The strikes also targeted an airport near Ivano-Frankivsk, where residents were ordered to take shelter after a air Raid alert, said Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv.
New satellite photos meanwhile seemed show a massive convoy outside the Ukrainian capital had stirred up out in nearby towns and forests Kyiv with artillery pieces raised for firing in another potentially worrying move.
the photos emerged in the middle more international efforts to isolate and sanction Russia, especially after a deadly air strike on a maternity in The harbor city of Mariupol which Western and Ukrainian officials have decried as a war crime. The United States and other nations were set to announce the revocation on Friday of Russia’s “most favored nation” trade status, which would be allow tariffs to be imposed on Russian imports.
Unsubject to sanctions, Russia has maintained up son bombing raid of Mariupol while Kyiv braced for an assault, son mayor boasting that the capital had practically become a fortress protected by armed civilians.
Satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies showed that the 40-mile (64 kilometer) convoy of vehiclestanks and artillery broke up and have been redeployed, the company said. Armored units have been sighted in cities near Antonov airport north of the city. Some of the vehicles moved into the forests, Maxar reported, with towed howitzers nearby in open position fire.
The convoy had massed outside the city early last week, but son advance appeared to stall according to reports of food and fuel shortages circulated. US officials said Ukrainian troops also targeted the convoy with anti-tank missiles.
However, the immediacy of the menace of Kyiv was unclear. A US defense official Speaking on state of anonymity said Russian forces moving towards Kyiv had advanced about 5 kilometers in the past 24 hours, with some elements as close as 15 kilometers from the city.
the official gave no indication that the convoy had dispersed or otherwise repositioned in an important way some say vehicles have been seen moving off the road in the tree line in The last days.
In Mariupol, a southern seaport of 430,000, the situation grew increasingly dire as civilians trapped inside the city scratched for food and fuel. More than 1,300 people is dead in the 10 day siege of the frigid citysaid Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
Residents do not have heat or telephone service, and many have no electricity. Nighttime temperatures are regularly below icy, and daytime ones hover normally just Above. The bodies are buried in mass graves. The streets are littered with burned-out cars, broken glass and splintered trees.
“They have one clear in order to hold Mariupol hostage, mock him, bomb him and constantly bomb him,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. in son nightly video address to the nation. He said the Russians started a tank attack where there should be a humanitarian corridor.
Firefighters attempted to free a trapped boy on Thursday in the rubble. One grabbed the main boy. His eyes blinked, but he was otherwise still. It was not clear if he survived. Nearby, to a mutilated truck, a wrapped woman in a blue blanket quivers at the sound of an explosion.
Grocery store stores and the pharmacies were emptied a few days ago by people rupture in to stock up, according to a local official with the Red Cross, Sasha Volkov. A black market East operating for vegetables, meat is not available, and people steal gasoline from cars, Volkov said.
The places protected from the bombardments are hard to find, with reserved basements for women and children, he said. Residents, Volkov said, are turning on one another: “People have started to attack One and the other for food.”
An Aleksander Ivanov at theair exhausted pulled a loaded cart with Bags down a hole street flanked by damaged buildings.
“I do not have home more. That’s why I am moving,” he said. “It doesn’t exist anymore. It was hit by a mortar.
Repeated attempts to send in food and medicine and the evacuation of civilians were thwarted by Russian shelling, Ukrainian authorities said.
“They want for destroy the people of Mariupol. They want to starve them to death,” Vereshchuk said. “It’s a war crime.”
Russian-backed separatists captured Ukraine city of Volnovakha north of the besieged sea port of Azov of Mariupol, the RIA news the agency quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying on Friday. Volnovakha is strategically important as the northern gateway to Mariupol
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Friday that Russian forces had destroyed 3,213 Ukrainian military installations since launch of what Russia calls a “special military transaction” in Ukraine.
The number of refugees fleeing the country exceeded 2.3 millions and some 100,000 people were evacuated during the past two days from seven cities under Russian blockade in the north and center of the country, including Kyiv suburbs, Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy told Russian leaders that the invasion will turn against on them as their economy is strangled. Western sanctions have already dealt a severe blow, causing the ruble to fall, foreign companies to flee and prices to fall. rise clearly.
“You will certainly be prosecuted for complicity in war crimes,” said Zelenskyy in a video address, warning that, “You will be hated by Russian citizens.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the remarks, saying the country had already suffered sanctions.
“We will overcome them,” he said in a televised meeting of government officials. However, he acknowledged that the sanctions create “some challenges.”
In addition to those who fled the country, millions were kicked out of their homes inside Ukraine. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said about 2 millions people, half the population of the metropolitan areahave left the capital.
“All streetall house…is fortified,” he said. ” Same people who in their lives never intended to change clothes, now they are in uniform with machine guns in their hands.”
Thursday, a 14-year-an old girl named Katya was recovering in the Central District Hospital of Brovary on The suburbs of Kyiv after her family were ambushed as they tried to flee area. She was shot in the main when their car was raked with gunshots coming from a roadside forest, told him mother, who identified herself only as Nina.
Girls father, who frantically chased from ambush on soufflé-out tires, underwent surgery. His wife said he was shot in the head and had two blown fingers off.
Western officials said Russian forces had made little progress on ground in in recent days and are experiencing heavier casualties and stiffer Ukrainian resistance than Moscow apparently anticipated. But Putin’s forces used air power and artillery to hit Ukrainian cities.
Early in by day, Mariupol city advice posted a video showing a convoy he said was bringing in food and medicine. But as night fell, it was unclear whether these buses had reached the city.
One child was among three people kill in the hospital airstrike on Wednesday. Seventeen people were also injured, including women waiting for give birth, doctors and children buried in the rubble. Pictures of the attack, with Pregnant women covered in dust and blood, dominated news reports in numerous countries.
French President Emmanuel Macron called on the attack “a shameful and immoral act of war.’ British Armed Forces ministerJames Heappey, said that while the hospital was hit by blind fire or deliberately targeted, “it’s a war crime.”
US Vice President Kamala Harris, on a visit to Poland neighboring Ukraine, sustained appeals for a international investigating war crimes invasion saying, “The eyes of the world are on this war and what Russia did in terms of this aggression and these atrocities.