A former NATO official has said she is ‘sceptical’ that Russian forces will ‘gain much success’ from an expected brutal onslaught of Kyiv, as Ukrainians warned Putin to prepare for his own Stalingrad in the capital.
Russian armoured vehicles are still slowly advancing on the city’s northeast after being stalled for days, and a military airfield south of the city in Vasylkiv has been hit by missiles, destroying the runway, a fuel depot and an ammunition store.
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Vladimir Putin widened his onslaught of Ukraine yesterday ordering attacks on towns and cities that had previously escaped his wrath.
The Kremlin chief struck areas in central and western Ukraine, some hundreds of miles from the capital Kyiv.
Huge explosions illuminated the night sky in Dnipro and Lutsk as residents experienced Russian artillery attacks for the first time.
In Ivano-Frankivsk, a triple strike hit at first light, said to be targeting an airfield on the edge of the city. Indiscriminate
A 40-mile long ‘death convoy’ of Russian vehicles stalled near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv has now ‘dispersed’, new satellite images reveal, with rocket artillery moved into firing positions for an attack on the capital.
The huge column of vehicles was last spotted on February 28 having ground to a halt on a highway leading into Kyiv from the north after suffering breakdowns, fuel shortages and supply problems.
Three people, including a six-year-old girl, have been confirmed dead after Russian warplanes bombed a maternity hospital in Ukraine yesterday as pregnant women gave birth in the basement in what President Zelensky described as an ‘atrocity’, a ‘war crime’ and ‘the ultimate proof of genocide against Ukrainians.’
The hospital, in the besieged city of Mariupol, was hit ‘several times’ by high-explosive Russian bombs – one of which missed the building by yards and left a crater two-stories deep, officials said.
A maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been decimated in a ‘direct hit’ by Russian rockets leaving children buried in the rubble, President Zelensky has said, in what he described as an ‘atrocity.’
Footage has emerged of badly wounded patients and nurses being evacuated from decimated buildings, while pregnant women were carried out on stretchers into a courtyard covered in rubble and littered with huge craters.
Zelensky himself posted a video showing the badly damaged hospital buildings,
Vladimir Putin’s ‘decimated’ forces could lose the war in Ukraine, the UK’s top military commander has suggested.
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said Russia’s troops were ‘in a mess’ and the invasion was ‘not going well’.
His comments yesterday represent the most optimistic assessment yet of how the conflict may end – but came on another bleak day, with Russian forces firing on families as they fled the fighting.
When the invasion began less than a fortnight ago it was assumed
Devastating images and videos have laid bare the horror of Vladimir Putin’s lawless invasion of Ukraine, as Russian troops unleash heavy gunfire and missiles on local residents.
Heartbreaking footage, taken in Irpin, located on the outskirts of the besieged capital city Kyiv, confirmed that Russian forces are attacking heavily populated civilian areas where men, women and children are leaving the country as the Russian tyrant continues denying bombing Ukrainian cities.
One image depicted a mother and her two children lying
