The fighting in Ukraine continued during the night from Monday to Tuesday. Russian troops continue their advance on the capital city of Kyiv and the second largest city in the country, Kharkiv. A overview about recent events:
According to Ukrainian sources, Russian troops are moving towards the capital Kyiv. Satellite images released by the Unian news agency show one Russian convoy of tanks and other military vehiclesthe round 64 kilometers long should be. It stretches from Hostomel Airport in northwest Kiev to the village of Prybirsk, which lies between Kyiv and Chernobyl. The situation is tense, according to the General Staff.
Next to Kyiv the Russians put theirs attacks to other cities. According to the mayor of Kharkivthe second largest city in the country, the Russian military blow up substations there, as the agency Ukrinform writes. This is said to cause problems with the electricity and water supply. The Unian news agency reports that the upper floors are two skyscrapers be destroyed been. Also in the southern city Kherson according to the state information service of Ukraine, an attack has started.
In an attack in the region Sumy in the Northeast it is said to be large losses on both sides have come. According to the Ukrainian anti-corruption portal Antikor possibly 70 people died on the Ukrainian side. In addition, there is said to be a large number of victims on the Russian side. Russian artillery hit a military unit. Again, this information cannot be independently verified.
The Southern Port city of Mariupol according to state information, however, is now under control of the Ukrainian army. However, the city in the Donetsk region is almost without electricity due to an air raid, reports the state information service, citing the mayor. There are also internet and cell phone outages. On Monday, Mariupol was still considered contested. According to the Unian agency, the Ukrainian army also wants to have destroyed around 100 Russian military vehicles in the Sumy region.
Even several Russian fighter planes and a helicopter be shot down reported by the Ukrainian Air Force. The shooting down of the fighter planes is said to have taken place during the air raids on Vasylkiv and Brovary in the outskirts of Kyiv. A cruise missile and a helicopter were also shot down.
the U.S. government by President Joe Biden requested at the congress aid package with a scope of $6.4 billion (€5.7 billion) for Ukraine. This should include humanitarian aid, economic aid and military aid for Ukraine’s self-defense, says the majority leader of Biden’s US Senate Democrats, Chuck Schumer. Even Australia wants Ukraine with me military equipment and humanitarian aid in the amount of 105 million Australian dollars (68 million euros). Prime Minister Scott Morrison says two-thirds of the money will go to “defence equipment, both lethal and non-lethal.”
And: since the beginning of the anti-war demonstrations in Russia on Thursday are total so far 6440 people arrested been. Around half of the arrests – 3126 – were made in the Russian capital Moscow, according to the civil rights portal Owd-Info. 2,084 people were arrested in the city of St. Petersburg.