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The mayor of Ukraine’s capital city has issued a spine-tingling warning to citizens as it prepares to enable a “more effective defence” against Russia.
Russian troops are reportedly only 18.6 miles (30 kilometres) from the centre of Kyiv, the British Ministry of Defence said Saturday.
More than 120,000 Ukrainians have already fled the country while 850,000 are internally displaced, according to the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, CNN reported.
Russia Ukraine war news live updates: Ukraine vows to keep fighting as Russian forces close on Kyiv.
After a barrage of airstrikes on cities and military bases around the country, Russian forces were closing in on Ukraine's capital of Kyiv. City officials warned of street fighting, and residents were preparing for a third night of assaults.
Russia's invasion force is being slowed and frustrated by unexpectedly stiff resistance from Ukrainian troops, keeping them outside Kyiv, a senior US defense official said. (AFP)
Satellite imagery taken on Saturday showed Russian ground forces assembled in Nova Kakhovka, Ukraine, at and near the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant on the Dnieper River, a private US company said: Reuters
The situation is bad at many places in Ukraine, citizens have taken up arms to save their country. Stockpiling began where I was staying, a student who returned from Ukraine told ANI.
New measures announced by the United States, Britain, Europe and Canada also include restrictions on the Russian central bank's international reserves. The sanctions will be implemented in the coming days.
Huge explosions lit up the predawn sky south of Kyiv early Sunday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office said one of the blasts was near the Zhuliany airport, and the mayor of Vasylkiv, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of the capital, said an oil depot there was hit.
IAF is keeping its transport aircraft on stand-by if the need arises to supplement Air India’s ongoing effort to evacuate Indian nationals from war-hit Ukraine, even as a multi-nation exercise, which the force was to take part in the UK next month, now stands cancelled.
The United States, Britain, Europe and Canada on Saturday moved to block Russia's access to the SWIFT international payment system as part of another round of sanctions against Moscow as it continues its assault against Ukraine.
Ukrainian tennis player Sergiy Stakhovsky says he has joined his country's military reserves to fight the Russian invasion, reports AFP
UN officials said nearly 1,20,000 Ukrainians had left the country for Poland, Romania, Hungary and other neighbouring nations and the number was going up fast as Ukrainians rushed to escape the deadly Russian onslaught.
Germany announced on Saturday evening that it would send 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 "Stinger" surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine "as quickly as possible."