The British Ministry of Defense said today, Saturday, that fighting continues in the northwest of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and that most of the Russian ground forces are now within 25 kilometers from the city center.
The ministry added, through its official account on “Twitter”, that the Ukrainian counter-attacks inflicted heavy losses on the Russian forces.
She pointed out that the cities of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol in Ukraine are still besieged and subjected to heavy Russian bombardment.
In a related context, hospitals, including a cancer treatment center and an ophthalmology clinic, were bombed in the coastal city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine on Friday night, according to an AFP journalist.
The cancer center had no patients or health staff at the time of the strikes, but an unknown number of patients were in the eye clinic.
and with Russian military operations continue In Ukraine, sirens sounded in most parts of the country this morning.
Local media reported that air raid sirens were sounded in most Ukrainian cities early Saturday morning, urging people to take cover.
A number of local Ukrainian media reported that sirens were heard in the capital, Kyiv, the western city of Lviv, Kharkiv and Cherkasy, as well as in the Sumy region in the northeast of the country.
Maxar satellite images show burned-out homes in northwestern Kyiv towns
And Russian forces appeared to have regrouped on Friday for a possible attack on Kyiv, as satellite images showed that those forces fired artillery as they advanced towards the Ukrainian capital.
The Russian army focused its attacks on Kyiv and eastern Ukraine, expanding its offensive to include the large city of Dnipro.
The Ukrainian military said in a statement that the Ukrainian capital, along with Mariupol, overlooking the Sea of Azov, Kryvyi Rig, Kremenchug, Nikopol and Zaporizhia, are the main areas in which the efforts of the Russian forces are still focused.
“The Russian army is unable to achieve success and continues its missile and bomb attacks on the cities located deep in the Ukrainian territory, namely Dnipro, Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk,” he added.
Satellite images taken by the American company Maxar showed the continued progress of Russian forces towards the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.