Ukrainian forces said on Saturday that they had repelled a night “attack” by Russian soldiers once morest one of their positions on Victory Avenue, one of Kiev’s main arteries.
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“The attack is repelled,” said the Ukrainian army, in a message on its Facebook account, without giving more details on the exact location of this confrontation.
She accompanied this message with a photo showing a large plume of smoke rising in the middle of an urban area, in the middle of the night, when Kiev fears a major attack by the Russian army to seize the city.
From the center of the capital, AFP journalists also heard fairly loud explosions very early on Saturday.
In a separate statement, the Ukrainian army reaffirmed that “hard fighting” continued in Vassylkiv, regarding thirty kilometers southwest of Kiev, where the Russians “are trying to land paratroopers”.
