“The window glass constantly shakes, and there is this constant thundering noise,” she said. She said sirens blare almost constantly in the city, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) from Kyiv.Ĭhernihiv residents have been told not to switch on any lights “so we don’t draw their attention,” said Bystritska, who has been living in a hallway, away from any windows, so she could better protect herself. “I wish I had never lived to see this,” said Bystritska, an 87-year-old Jewish survivor of World War II. Nearly 900 kilometers (560 miles) away, Faina Bystritska was under threat in the city of Chernihiv. Their resuscitation efforts failed, and the girl lay dead on a gurney, her jacket spattered with blood. “The eyes of this child, and crying doctors.” In Mariupol, where Ukrainians were trying to fend off attack, a medical team at a city hospital desperately tried to revive a 6-year-old girl in unicorn pajamas who was mortally wounded in Russian shelling.ĭuring the rescue attempt, a doctor in blue medical scrubs, pumping oxygen into the girl, looked directly into the Associated Press video camera capturing the scene. Ukraine is also releasing prisoners with military experience who want to fight, and training people to make firebombs.
Authorities have been handing out weapons to anyone willing to defend the city. With Russian troops closing in around Kyiv, a city of almost 3 million, the mayor of the capital expressed doubt that civilians could be evacuated. Russian troops also made advances toward Kherson, another city in the south of Ukraine, while Mariupol, a port city on the Sea of Azov that is considered a prime Russian target, is “hanging on,” Arestovich said. Battles also broke out in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, and strategic ports in the country’s south came under assault from Russian forces.īy late Sunday, Russian forces had taken Berdyansk, a Ukrainian city of 100,000 on the Azov Sea coast, according to Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to Zelenskyy’s office. The fast-moving developments came as scattered fighting was reported in Kyiv.
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Moscow has so far failed to win full control of Ukraine’s airspace, despite advances across the country.
Putin’s directive came as Russian forces encountered strong resistance from Ukraine defenders. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss rapidly unfolding military operations. The Russian leader is “potentially putting in play forces that, if there’s a miscalculation, could make things much, much more dangerous,” said a senior U.S. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - President Vladimir Putin dramatically escalated East-West tensions by ordering Russian nuclear forces put on high alert Sunday, while Ukraine’s embattled leader agreed to talks with Moscow as Putin’s troops and tanks drove deeper into the country, closing in around the capital.Ĭiting “aggressive statements” by NATO and tough financial sanctions, Putin issued a directive to increase the readiness of Russia’s nuclear weapons, raising fears that the invasion of Ukraine could lead to nuclear war, whether by design or mistake.
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