With the Russian war on Ukraine entering its twelfth day, the Russian forces tightened the encirclement of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in preparation for storming it. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has warned that Russian forces are advancing from the axis of the city of Sumy, east of the capital, Kyiv, while the Russian Defense Ministry has announced the destruction of 2,200 military targets since the start of the operation in Ukraine.
In the past hours, Russian raids targeted sites in the city of Odessa on the Black Sea coast, according to the Ukrainian news agency. For its part, the Russian TASS news agency reported that Ukrainian forces bombed Luhansk with Grad missiles.
The Ukrainian army also bombed a Russian artillery position near the city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, according to what the American network “CNN” quoted, according to the mayor of the city, who published a video clip showing the destruction of Russian artillery armored vehicles after they were bombed by Ukrainian forces, he said.
On Sunday night, the Ukrainian army announced that it had taken control of the town of Chugov in the eastern city of Kharkiv.
A US defense official revealed that Russia had launched six hundred missiles since the start of the war in Ukraine, and that it had used ninety-five percent of its military mobilization there, ruling out that it would carry out an attack from the sea through Odessa, Ukraine’s third largest city.
In this context, British Defense Intelligence reported that Russian forces made only slight field progress in Ukraine over the weekend. It also questioned Russia’s achievement of its goals so far.
The Ukrainian arena witnessed rapid developments in the past few hours, on Sunday night, most notably the start of Russian forces to mobilize resources to storm Kyiv, according to the Ukrainian General Staff, which added that the supplies reach Russian forces from Belarus via Chernobyl. A Ukrainian official confirmed that Russia’s intensive bombing targeted the central, northern and southern cities of the country.
On Sunday night, Ukraine reported thatRadio and TV broadcasting has stopped After targeting a television tower in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine. A video clip recorded a Russian bombing of the aforementioned tower.
The Russian bombing also targeted the regional prosecutor’s office, and the Azerbaijani embassy in the city.
The city of Irbin, located on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, witnessed violent clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces, accompanied by heavy Russian shelling.
The mayor of Lviv in western Ukraine also warned that the Russian president wants to take over his country, which represents a large part of Europe, by controlling the city of Lviv, which includes government institutions and diplomatic headquarters.
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary-General of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, confirmed that Russia is massing its military forces to encircle the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Daniulov explained that Russia is focusing on isolating Ukraine from the Black Sea.
Simultaneously, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again criticized the allies, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of planning premeditated murder in Ukrainian cities.