Residents urged to prepare to fight as Ukrainian government tries to slow Russian advance
Russian troops have entered Kyiv from the north, Ukraine’s Defence Ministry said in a statement that called on residents to prepare to fight.
The Ukrainian government said they had destroyed three bridges on the northern approach to the capital to slow the Russian advance. Russia began invading Ukraine from three directions on Thursday, with air strikes targeting cities across the country in an attack on a scale not seen in Europe since the Second World War that left tens of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing for safety.
After encountering fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces in the Chernihiv region north of Kyiv, Russian troops stationed in allied Belarus opened a separate line of attack through the exclusion zone created by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, raising the prospect of damage being done to the radioactive waste storage facility there.
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