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Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has entered its fifth day. Russian troops are driving deeper into the nation having attacked Ukraine from three instructions: its northern border with Belarus, the japanese frontier with Russia, and within the south from Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula Moscow annexed in 2014.
Monday February 28
Ukrainian troops efficiently defended Kyiv after a Russian assault in a single day on Sunday that noticed columns of Russian troops repeatedly attempt to storm the town, in line with the Ukrainian navy commander main the defence of the capital metropolis. Russian forces killed dozens in heavy rocket assaults throughout residential neighbourhoods in Kharkiv, the second largest metropolis in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian navy mentioned Russian troops continued to assault airports, air defence methods, important infrastructure and residential areas across the nation, launching missile strikes on buildings in cities of Zhytomyr and Chernihiv.
Russia’s navy claimed it had captured the cities of Berdyansk and Enerhodar and the “territory round” a nuclear energy plant in Zaporizhiya within the nation’s south-east. It additionally mentioned it had taken management of Ukraine’s airspace.
Russian and Ukrainian navy claims can’t be independently verified.
Sunday February 27
Ukrainian troops repelled a Russian incursion into Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis on Sunday.
Russian forces continued to slowly encircle the capital Kyiv, the place Mayor Vitali Klitschko has ordered a curfew till Monday morning with the intention to keep away from residents of the capital metropolis being mistaken for Russian ‘saboteurs’.
Russia’s military continued to realize floor in southern areas of Ukraine, utilizing troops rolling in from the Crimean peninsula.
Hundreds of folks fleeing the preventing are within the western metropolis of Lviv, many determined to make the 100km journey to the Polish city of Przemysl and escape the conflict.
Saturday February 26
There was preventing in a single day within the southern cities of Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa. Areas close to Sumy, Poltava, and Mariupol had been hit by airstrikes, Ukrainian sources instructed Reuters. A witness in Melitopol confirmed a Russian declare that the town was beneath their management.
The centre of Kyiv was nonetheless beneath Ukrainian management, its leaders mentioned. witnesses reported gunfire close to authorities buildings and the Ukrainian military mentioned it had repelled an assault on a base within the metropolis. Witnesses additionally heard frequent artillery blasts, and a missile struck an residence block.
Along with makes an attempt at advancing into Kyiv from the north-west, Russian helicopter and tank forces are attempting to take Zhulyany airport in southern Kyiv, Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser in Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s workplace, mentioned Saturday morning on native tv.
Arestovych mentioned battles are underway in Kharkiv, the second-largest metropolis, and that Ukrainian forces had for 3 days blocked a Russian advance on Kyiv from the north-east close to Chernihiv. Russian forces had been seen in close by Pryluky, Konrad Muzyka of Rochan Consulting wrote on Saturday morning.
The civilian exodus from Kyiv continued on Friday afternoon. Visitors was heavy on roads main out of the capital and crowds gathered within the central Kyiv practice station as residents scrambled to flee the town. Many individuals headed west. However that route additionally carried dangers, with reviews on Friday of air sirens in Vinnytsia and air strikes reported in Zhitomir.
Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of western Ukraine’s largest metropolis Lviv, mentioned on Saturday that authorities troops had been “repelling” about 60 Russian troopers who landed by helicopter within the close by city of Brody.
Russian and Ukrainian navy claims can’t be independently verified.
Friday February 25
Early on Thursday, Ukraine’s military confirmed it had misplaced management of the northeastern metropolis of Konotop, however had held up the Russian advance on the capital Kyiv north of Chernihiv. Ukrainian forces in a single day destroyed bridges north of the town to impede the Russian advance.
Hostomel airport, 10km northwest of the capital, modified palms a number of occasions over the course of Thursday and in a single day. Ukrainian sources mentioned Russian IL-76 transport plane regarded as carrying paratroopers to the airport returned to Gomel in Belarus after the battle prevented them from touchdown. On Friday afternoon Russia claimed it had captured the airport.
Russian forces had been in Kyiv’s northwestern suburbs on Friday. Visitors was heavy on roads main out of the town as civilians fled. Officers urged residents within the Obolon district of Kyiv, a populous residential space, to keep indoors amid reviews that Russian armoured automobiles had entered the neighbourhood.
There have been battles round Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest metropolis, which Ukrainian officers mentioned was nonetheless beneath its management. There was additionally preventing within the japanese Donbass area, the place authorities troops have fought Russian-backed separatists for eight years.
There was preventing within the outskirts of the southern metropolis of Melitopol, as Russian forces superior north from the Crimean peninsula, in line with a Ukrainian military assertion.
Russian forces additionally captured Zmiinyi (Snake) Island within the Black Sea south of Odesa. The Russian defence ministry mentioned 82 Ukrainian troopers there had surrendered, whereas Ukrainian officers mentioned all 13 border guards on the island had been killed by hearth from a Russian warship.
Russian and Ukrainian navy claims can’t be independently verified.
Thursday February 24
Russia’s multipronged invasion prompt it was to advance south in the direction of Kyiv from Belarus, encircle Ukraine’s forces within the east, and cleave the nation from the Russian border to the Black Sea.
Putin on Tuesday February 22 recognised the separatist governments in Luhansk and Donetsk, two provinces within the japanese Donbas area of Ukraine, and ordered Russian troops to enter them. On Thursday February 24 Moscow started a full-scale invasion of the nation.
Sources: Institute for the Research of Warfare, Rochan Consulting, FT analysis
Cartography and improvement by Steve Bernard, Chris Campbell, Emma Lewis, Joanna S. Kao, Sam Learner, Niko Kommenda and Martin Stabe. Primarily based on reporting by Roman Olearchyk and John Reed in Kyiv, Man Chazan in Lviv, Max Seddon in Moscow and Henry Foy in Brussels
