As Russian forces reportedly make their option to the Ukrainian capital metropolis of Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky has launched a video with high Ukrainian officers vowing to remain within the metropolis, regardless of beforehand saying he was Russia’s “number-one goal.”
The footage was launched Friday and reveals Zelensky with officers behind him wearing navy fatigues, and seems to have been filmed in Kyiv’s authorities district in entrance of the presidential administration constructing.
“All of us are right here,” Zelensky says within the video, apparently addressing rumours spreading in Russian media that he has left the nation. “Our navy is right here, our civil servants are right here defending our independence and our state and we imply to maintain it that method.”
Pointing on the males assembled behind him within the video, the Ukrainian president mentioned the prime minister, celebration chief and the top of the president’s administration had all remained behind within the metropolis.
“Glory to our allies,” Zelensky says. “Glory to Ukraine.”
The combating has been intense in sure areas inside Ukraine, with gunfire breaking out on a bridge throughout the Dneiper River that divides jap and western Kyiv.
Roughly 200 Ukrainian troopers have been stationed there Friday, as one other bridge resulting in the capital was blown as much as keep away from the Russian troops utilizing it to maneuver deeper into the nation.
It's troublesome to pinpoint the place the majority of Russian forces are congregated and the way a lot of Ukraine remains to be held by the federal government by means of the fog of warfare, however the British defence ministry mentioned the Russian forces advancing on Kyiv have been nonetheless greater than 50 kilometres from the town centre, with clashes recorded within the north suburbs.
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with a file from the Related Press
In a nonetheless taken from video, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is seen with different Ukrainian officers in Kyiv. (Volodymyr Zelensky through Storyful)
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