Dhe Russian troops in Ukraine continued their advance on the capital Kyiv and the country’s second largest city, Kharkiv, on Tuesday night. A massive Russian military convoy of tanks and other vehicles is rolling towards Kyiv. The fighting also continued in other parts of the country.
Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) is traveling to Poland this Tuesday. In Lodz, she is received by the Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau for a meeting with her French colleague Jean-Yves Le Drian. The meeting of the so-called Weimar Triangle takes place once morest the background of the Russian all-out attack on Ukraine. Baerbock then wants to travel to New York to give a speech at the emergency session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. This was announced by a spokesman for the Foreign Office.
The Russian army invaded Ukraine last Thursday and has been attacking cities like Kyiv and Kharkiv ever since. Negotiators from Kiev and Moscow met on Monday for a first round of negotiations in Belarus. After the conclusion of the talks, both sides announced that a second round of negotiations had been agreed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country had made “counter-proposals” to Russian demands “to end the war”.
This is how the fifth night of the war went
According to Ukrainian sources, Russian troops are moving towards the capital Kyiv. Satellite images released by the Unian news agency show a Russian convoy of tanks and other military vehicles said to be around 40 miles long. The armyworm stretches from Hostomel Airport in north-western Kiev to the village of Prybirsk, which lies between Kyiv and Chernobyl. The situation is tense, according to the General Staff. On Monday, the main Russian column had advanced “regarding five kilometers” towards Kyiv and was “regarding 25 kilometers” from the city, according to a senior US Defense Department official.
This satellite image is said to show a Russian convoy northwest of Kyiv on Monday.
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Image: Maxar Technologies via AP
Images of the convoy show dozens of vehicles lined up on roads in the Ukrainian countryside. Some of the vehicles are “very far apart,” Maxar said. Others are grouped “in twos and threes”. Some of the images show smoke from buildings that are believed to be on fire. The US company Maxar also released images showing new troop deployments from attack helicopters and vehicles in Belarus, less than 30 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army said on Facebook on Tuesday that Russian forces had regrouped over the past 24 hours, accumulating armored vehicles and artillery “mainly to encircle and take control of Kyiv and the other major cities of Ukraine.” “.
Other cities also fought
Besides Kyiv, the Russians continued their attacks on other cities. According to the mayor of Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city, the Russian military is blowing up substations there, the Ukrinform agency wrote. This is said to cause problems with the electricity and water supply. The Unian news agency reported that the upper floors of two skyscrapers had been destroyed. An attack has also begun in the southern city of Kherson, according to the State Information Service of Ukraine.
