Russian forces face fierce resistance in key Ukrainian cities 2 weeks into invasion
Wednesday it's bolstering defenses in northern, southern and eastern Ukraine and that its forces near Kyiv were repelling Russian attacks with strikes of their own and "holding the line."The MoD said the cities of "Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol remain encircled by Russian forces and continue to suffer heavy Russian shelling."
Local officials said Mariupol was facing a "humanitarian crisis" and an "attempt to evacuate civilians and deliver badly needed food, water and medicine through a designated safe corridor failed" after Russia's military "fired on the convoy" before it could reach the city of 430,000,Air raid sirens rang out in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities on Wednesday morning, as Russia's military said it would this time hold fire in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and...
Ukrainian officials said they had agreed to a ceasefire from 9am to 9pm in the five cities affected by the Kremlin's evacuation announcement,The only humanitarian corridor that has been in operation was for the northeastern city of Sumy. Some 5,000 residents had been evacuated since it opened Tuesday,Zhyvytskyi said in a later Telegram post that Russian forces had bombed a residential area overnight, killing 22 people.
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