The next few hours are described as difficult for Kyiv, as late on Friday night, explosions were heard and then shots were fired in the city. According to SKAI’s envoy to Kyiv Miltos Sakellaris, the sirens sounded again while the fears of the Ukrainian authorities for an imminent Russian invasion of the capital are intensifying.
Satellite images taken yesterday show Russian troops continuing to grow closer to Kyiv, while artillery shells being fired on residential areas, according to US private company Maxar Technologies.
The company, which has been monitoring the movements of Russian troops since the start of the crisis in Ukraine, said the photos showed houses and other buildings in flames, extensive damage and craters along the Moscow community, northwest of the Ukrainian capital.
Reuters, for its part, notes that it is not in a position to verify this information.
Bombings are also taking place in the last hours in Nikolaev and Kharkiv
New Russian bombings also took place in Nikolaev on Friday night, according to the regional governor.
As he mentioned, a supermarket and many houses were engulfed in flames.
In Kharkov, the bombings are uninterrupted. In the suburb of Izium, an apartment building, shops and cars have been set on fire. According to local authorities, in the last 24 hours,
Russian forces have bombed Izium and the wider Kharkiv region 89 times. The same sources say 49 schools and a psychiatric hospital have been bombed.
In Melitopol, according to Ukrainian authorities, the mayor of the city was abducted by two Russian soldiers from the Emergency Management Center where he was staying, in order to coordinate humanitarian aid efforts.
On the incident, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced that it had submitted a formal request to Russia to report war crimes, citing the Geneva Convention, which prohibits the detention of civilians in time of war.
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