Ukraine mentioned it had blown up a bridge to curb a Russian advance into the capital as gunfire and missile strikes had been heard all through Kyiv in a single day.

Russia is intensifying its assault on the Ukrainian capital, after its troops superior on cities within the east, north, and south on Thursday.

Ukraine's Defence Ministry mentioned its forces managed to cease a convoy of Russian tanks after airborne assault troops blew up a bridge over the Teteriv River at Ivankiv, round 30 miles north of Kyiv.

There have been experiences that Ukrainian forces had additionally blown up two different bridges however this has not been confirmed.

It comes as U.S. Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin advised U.S. lawmakers Russian mechanized forces that entered Ukraine from Belarus had been about 20 miles from Kyiv, the Related Press reported.

Illia Ponomarenko, a protection reporter for the Kyiv Impartial, tweeted a map of what he mentioned was the place Russian armored teams "try to realize a foothold" on their strategy to Kyiv.

"A few of key bridges throughout native rivers have been destroyed, together with in Irpin, to gradual the enemy motion down," he wrote, "to the north east, Ukrainian forces have stopped the enemy."

In the meantime, Ukraine Inside Ministry advisor Anton Gerashenko warned that Friday might be "the toughest day" BuzzFeed Information reported, as a result of "the enemy's plan is to interrupt by way of with tanks from Ivankiv and Chernihiv to Kyiv."

The Ukrainian army is reporting vital combating northwest of Kyiv as Russian forces apparently attempt to advance on Kyiv from the north, the AP reported.

Social media movies are displaying what look like Russian tanks driving by way of Obolon, north of Kyiv's metropolis centre, the place Ukraine's Defence Ministry confirmed that Russian forces had infiltrated, the BBC reported.

CNN reported that in a single day there have been two giant blasts in Kyiv and a 3rd explosion within the distance. In the meantime, Ukrainian Deputy Inside Minister Evgeny Yenin advised the community that a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet was shot down over Kyiv in a single day.

Amid conflicting experiences, pictures tweeted by the emergency forces confirmed a fireplace at a two-story personal home after fragments of a aircraft fell on it though it was not confirmed if these are remnants of the jet.

Footage shared on the Telegram channel of DTP Kyiv, which offers video and data to maintain residents knowledgeable concerning the newest army threats, shared a clip of what it mentioned had been two ballistic missiles "of the invaders" being shot down.

Earlier on Friday, open-source intelligence monitor OSINTdefender tweeted that there have been unconfirmed experiences that Russian bombers had crossed the northern Belarusian border close to Gomel and had been heading to Kyiv.

In the meantime, Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko, a former world heavyweight boxing champion, mentioned a minimum of three individuals had been injured when a rocket hit an condo constructing within the capital, the AP reported.

Russian tanks move over bridge
Photograph from February 16 displaying a practice of Russian tanks crossing a bridge into Crimea. Reviews haver emerged which have Ukrainian forces have blown up a bridge to impede Russian tanks advancing on Kyiv. AP