(AFP) — Ukrainian forces repulsed a Russian attack on Kyiv (Kiev) but “sabotage groups” infiltrated the capital, officials said Saturday as a defiant President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Ukraine would never give in.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky declared that he is still in the capital of Kyiv (Kiev) in a video purporting to show the leader from the streets of the embattled city in the early hours of Saturday morning after reportedly shutting down a plea from the Biden administration to flee.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video on Friday reportedly from Kyiv with a caption that read “We defend Ukraine” after the city was hit with rocket strikes.
The world watches Russian rockets and shells rain down on Ukrainian cities, yet Russian state media are telling domestic audiences that Kyiv is “quiet and calm,” Kharkiv had “an ordinary day,” and footage of Russia’s savage attacks is all just a “background of lies from the Western media.”
Ukraine’s state-run Ukrinform news service reported several victories against the Russian invasion force on Friday, including the destruction of Russian tanks, warplanes, and rocket launchers. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Friday morning that a thousand Russian soldiers have been killed in action.
The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv was hit by rocket strikes overnight, with reports of fighting in its suburbs on Friday morning.
Ukrainian anti-corruption activist and politician Halyna Yanchenk pleaded with the world on CBS News Thursday to save her people from the Russian invasion currently underway.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko of Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv said Thursday he was ready to take up arms against the Russian invasion.
A senior defense official told reporters Thursday that Russia has “every intention of basically decapitating” Ukraine’s government.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine on Thursday morning then warned the world of “consequences greater than any of you have faced in history” if any nation seeks to interfere.
On Wednesday, a live report on “CNN Tonight” by CNN senior international correspondent Matthew Chance from Kyiv, Ukraine captured the sound of explosions in the distance.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invited his American counterpart Joe Biden to Kyiv to see for himself the absence of any imminent threat of war in a conversation on Sunday after telling reporters that officials in his country had no evidence to support the “panic” in the White House about an allegedly imminent Russian invasion.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will travel to Kyiv on February 3 where he will hold bilateral talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, amid recent political tension between Ukraine and Russia, Reuters reported on Monday.
Former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko has claimed that elites in Germany have been bought off by Russia to “betray” Ukraine.
The UK has begun evacuating some embassy staff and their dependents from Britain’s embassy in Kyiv amid the “growing threat” of an invasion.
New WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk hopes a contractual rematch against Anthony Joshua will take place in his native Ukraine — although Joshua’s promoters want another British bout to maximise revenue.
Ukrainian media on Wednesday accused Russia of escalating violence in the Donbass region and continuing to move large amounts of military hardware to the Ukrainian border using highways and railroads.
A court in Kyiv ordered internet regulators to block over 400 websites in the country, many of them allegedly having ties to the Russian government, Ukrainian media reported Wednesday.
Police in Kyiv announced on Monday they have arrested a 27-year-old man for deliberately starting a huge fire in the Exclusion Zone around the decommissioned nuclear plant at Chernobyl, scene of the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986.
