On the impact of the continuation Russian military operation in UkraineAnd it entered its eleventh day, and with the Russian forces approaching the storming of Kyiv, a US official said on Saturday that his country and its allies are preparing to support a long battle in the Ukrainian capital if it falls.
He added that Ukraine’s allies are planning to direct street war operations against Russia in Kyiv, stressing that they are providing it with weapons and equipment suitable for this type of war.
An American alert and an interim Ukrainian government
He also continued that the weapons provided by America to Ukraine would be decisive in the phase of the street war, according to what was reported by the American newspaper “Washington Post”.
He also pointed out that Russia’s possible takeover of Kyiv has mobilized the Pentagon and US agencies, noting that the West is preparing for a “Ukrainian government-in-exile”.
He also made it clear that Poland might be the seat of the interim Ukrainian government if Kyiv fell.
He announced that the United States and its allies are preparing for the stage after the fall of the Ukrainian capital, amid the recent field developments, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has so far refused to move to the western city of Lviv.
Moscow is besieging the capital
This came hours after the Ukrainian army announced, on Saturday morning, that Russia was working to besiege the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and the eastern city of Kharkiv.
And he said in a statement, that the Moscow attack entered its tenth day, with air support and the use of Russian high-precision weapons, while the Russian forces continued to try to reach the administrative borders of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, in order to establish a land corridor from the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia to the separatist regions.
According to the report, defense operations in the capital, Kyiv, are continuing to repel the Russian attack.
He also added that Moscow also continued to identify weaknesses in the defense of the southern port city of Mariupol, while it was not possible to independently verify information related to the fighting.
Third round of negotiations
Kyiv announced on Saturday that a third round of talks between Russia and Ukraine will be held next Monday, with the aim of stopping hostilities, after the previous two rounds, which were held at the Ukrainian-Belarus and Ukrainian-Hungarian borders, did not lead to a cessation of hostilities.
It is noteworthy that on February 24, the Russian forces launched a military operation on Ukrainian territory, a few days after the Kremlin recognized the independence of two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, which entailed an international alert and a wide package of sanctions against Moscow.
Several months ago, the Russian borders witnessed a military alert and military build-up, amid unprecedented tension with the West, against the backdrop of the Russians’ refusal to expand NATO in the European East, or to annex Kyiv to it, especially since there are tensions between Moscow and the Ukrainian capital for years, no Especially in 2014, when Russian forces took control of Crimea.