London: The Russians are 25 km from Kiev.
The British military claims that most of Russia’s troops are stationed about 25 kilometers from the center of the Ukrainian capital.
After shelling parts of the Ukrainian capital by Russian forces on Monday morning, it is now said that the Russians are approaching Kiev.
The British intelligence service today claimed that Russian forces advancing from the northeast towards Kiev had been stopped and that most of them remained 25 km from the city center.
According to Reuters, the British Ministry of Defense said: “Intense clashes continue in the north of Kiev. “Troops advancing northwest from Hostomel were repulsed by strong Ukrainian resistance.”
At the same time, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that its forces had been able to take control of some areas of the Kiev suburbs.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said in the last hours of Sunday evening that the capital was under siege and that the largest concentration of Russian forces was in the north of Kiev.
On February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the Donetsk and Luhansk republics (separatists in eastern Ukraine). Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that “demilitarization and de-Naziization” were key objectives of the operation. Moscow has repeatedly stated that it has no plans to occupy Ukraine, and that the Russian armed forces are only targeting Ukraine’s military infrastructure. The United States and its allies, including Japan, have responded to Moscow’s move by imposing comprehensive sanctions on Russia.
