Russian rocket assaults destroyed a Ukrainian airbase close to the city of Vasylkiv within the Kyiv area on Saturday (March 12) morning, Interfax Ukraine quoted the native mayor as saying.
The rocket assaults additionally hit an ammunition depot, Vasylkiv Mayor Natalia Balasynovych stated.
Preventing raged northwest of Kyiv on Saturday, with the majority of Russian floor forces 25 km (16 miles) from the centre of the Ukrainian capital, whereas a number of different cities had been encircled and underneath heavy shelling, the UK Defence Ministry stated.
Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk stated she hoped that a number of humanitarian corridors would open on Saturday for 1000’s of residents within the bombarded cities, together with from the besieged port metropolis of Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia.
Air raid sirens blared throughout most Ukrainian cities on Saturday morning urging individuals to hunt shelters, native media reported, after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated the struggle had reached a “strategic turning level”.
Russian forces seemed to be regrouping, presumably for a contemporary offensive which might goal the capital Kyiv in a number of days, Britain’s defence ministry stated on Friday (March 11). In a Saturday replace, it stated preventing northwest of the capital continued and the cities of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol remained encircled underneath heavy Russian shelling.
(Reuters)