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Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has entered its fifth day. Russian troops are riding deeper into the nation having attacked Ukraine from three instructions: its northern border with Belarus, the eastern frontier with Russia, and in the south from Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula Moscow annexed in 2014.
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Monday February 28
Ukrainian troops efficiently defended Kyiv after a Russian assault in a single day on Sunday that noticed columns of Russian troops repeatedly try to storm town, in response to the Ukrainian protection force commander main the defence of the capital city.
The Ukrainian protection force said Russian troops continued to assault airports, air defence methods, indispensable infrastructure and residential areas across the nation, launching missile strikes on structures in cities of Zhytomyr and Chernihiv. Russian forces killed dozens in heavy rocket attacks across residential neighbourhoods in Kharkiv, the 2nd largest city in Ukraine.
Russia’s protection force claimed it had captured the cities of Berdyansk and Enerhodar and the “territory round” a nuclear vitality plant in Zaporizhiya in the nation’s south-east. It furthermore said it had taken lend a hand watch over of Ukraine’s airspace.
Russian and Ukrainian protection force claims can’t be independently verified.
Sunday February 27
Ukrainian troops repelled a Russian incursion into Kharkiv, Ukraine’s 2nd-largest city on Sunday.
Russian forces continued to slowly encircle the capital Kyiv, the save Mayor Vitali Klitschko has ordered a curfew until Monday morning in expose to lead clear of residents of the capital city being inaccurate for Russian ‘saboteurs’.
Russia’s military continued to abolish ground in southern regions of Ukraine, the utilization of troops rolling in from the Crimean peninsula.
Hundreds of of us fleeing the combating are in the western city of Lviv, many alive to to gain the 100km go to the Polish city of Przemysl and destroy out the battle.
Saturday February 26
There became combating in a single day in the southern cities of Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa. Areas design Sumy, Poltava, and Mariupol were hit by airstrikes, Ukrainian sources told Reuters. A leer in Melitopol confirmed a Russian voice that town became below their lend a hand watch over.
The centre of Kyiv became gentle below Ukrainian lend a hand watch over, its leaders said. witnesses reported gunfire design authorities structures and the Ukrainian military said it had repelled an assault on a inaccurate in town. Witnesses furthermore heard frequent artillery blasts, and a missile struck an dwelling block.
Apart from makes an try at advancing into Kyiv from the north-west, Russian helicopter and tank forces are attempting to rob Zhulyany airport in southern Kyiv, Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser in Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s save of enterprise, said Saturday morning on native tv.
Arestovych said battles are underway in Kharkiv, the 2nd-largest city, and that Ukrainian forces had for 3 days blocked a Russian design on Kyiv from the north-east design Chernihiv. Russian forces were viewed in nearby Pryluky, Konrad Muzyka of Rochan Consulting wrote on Saturday morning.
The civilian exodus from Kyiv continued on Friday afternoon. Visitors became heavy on roads main out of the capital and crowds gathered in the central Kyiv disclose pickle as residents scrambled to interrupt out town. Many participants headed west. But that direction furthermore carried dangers, with stories on Friday of air sirens in Vinnytsia and air strikes reported in Zhitomir.
Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of western Ukraine’s largest city Lviv, said on Saturday that authorities troops were “repelling” about 60 Russian troopers who landed by helicopter in the nearby city of Brody.
Russian and Ukrainian protection force claims can’t be independently verified.
Friday February 25
Early on Thursday, Ukraine’s military confirmed it had lost lend a hand watch over of the northeastern city of Konotop, nevertheless had held up the Russian design on the capital Kyiv north of Chernihiv. Ukrainian forces in a single day destroyed bridges north of town to hamper the Russian design.
Hostomel airport, 10km northwest of the capital, modified hands plenty of cases over the route of Thursday and in a single day. Ukrainian sources said Russian IL-76 transport aircraft thought to be carrying paratroopers to the airport returned to Gomel in Belarus after the war prevented them from touchdown. On Friday afternoon Russia claimed it had captured the airport.
Russian forces were in Kyiv’s northwestern suburbs on Friday. Visitors became heavy on roads main out of town as civilians fled. Officials urged residents in the Obolon district of Kyiv, a populous residential blueprint, to protect indoors amid stories that Russian armoured vehicles had entered the neighbourhood.
There non-public been battles round Kharkiv, Ukraine’s 2nd largest city, which Ukrainian officials said became gentle below its lend a hand watch over. There became furthermore combating in the eastern Donbass save of residing, the save authorities troops non-public fought Russian-backed separatists for eight years.
There became combating in the outskirts of the southern city of Melitopol, as Russian forces developed north from the Crimean peninsula, in response to a Ukrainian military statement.
Russian forces furthermore captured Zmiinyi (Snake) Island in the Sad Sea south of Odesa. The Russian defence ministry said 82 Ukrainian troopers there had surrendered, whereas Ukrainian officials said all 13 border guards on the island were killed by fireplace from a Russian warship.
Russian and Ukrainian protection force claims can’t be independently verified.
Thursday February 24
Russia’s multipronged invasion suggested it became to design south in direction of Kyiv from Belarus, encircle Ukraine’s forces in the east, and nick the nation from the Russian border to the Sad Sea.
Putin on Tuesday February 22 recognised the separatist governments in Luhansk and Donetsk, two provinces in the eastern Donbas save of residing of Ukraine, and ordered Russian troops to enter them. On Thursday February 24 Moscow began a beefy-scale invasion of the nation.
Sources: Institute for the Undercover agent of War, Rochan Consulting, FT study
Cartography and pattern by Steve Bernard, Chris Campbell, Emma Lewis, Joanna S. Kao, Sam Learner, Niko Kommenda and Martin Stabe. In accordance to reporting by Roman Olearchyk and John Reed in Kyiv, Guy Chazan in Lviv, Max Seddon in Moscow and Henry Foy in Brussels
