“The city has gone into a defensive phase. Shots and explosions are ringing out in some neighborhoods. Saboteurs have already entered Kyiv,” said Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
The Ukraine's Capital is preparing to battle on Friday, as a Russia advance reached the city and its leader issued a desperate plea to the outside world for help. Fear continues to grow as explosions and air-raid sirens in Kyiv. Russia troops drill down to the city, as global backlash sets off.
Putin suggested he might be willing to enter negotiations with Ukraine even as his forces continued their advance across the country. Many hours later, The Russia leader encourage Ukrainian soldiers to Bring down their government.
Zelenskyy refused to leave from the embattled capital, instead they made hopless plea for Western governments to take tougher measures against Moscow.
He calling the Ukrainians inclined to fight, Handing out to civilians thousands of guns. On Friday, The President of Ukraine urged anyone with military experience in Europe to come to Ukraine and take to their own streets in protest.
“We are defending our independence, our country,” he said in his latest video message. It will continue like this. Glory to our defenders, glory to Ukraine.”
“The enemy wants to put the capital on its knees and destroy us," said Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, a former world heavyweight boxing champion. “The city has gone into a defensive phase. Shots and explosions are ringing out in some neighborhoods. Saboteurs have already entered Kyiv.”Officials say that the Russia Force are undertaking an amphibious assault agasint to west of the city of Mariupol. The United States has giving a sign of Russia placing a possibly thousands of naval forces ashore there. The American officials suppose that Russia troops will then attempt to move toward the Donbass region.
New warings coming in from local officials, waring the residents in Obolon form north of the capital, warn not to go outside due to "the approach of active hostilities." The military said Russian saboteurs. Many Russian troops disguised in Ukrainian uniforms, were in the streets.
Just outside the Capital, Russia had clamed to taken control of the strategic Hostomel Airport. It has not verified either side's reports.
“Up until now, we understood Russian troops had set up around the ring road of the city. Now we understand they are moving in,” he said from an underground parking garage filled with journalists and local residents, including children.Day 2 of Putin's atttack on Ukraine, this brought airstrikes to cities across the country whileeconomic chaos and Europe’s gravest security crisis in decades.
Before sunset Kyiv a place with over 3 million people, have to face with the barrage of explosions. Many residents taking shelter in underground in shelters andmetro stations.
Biden and Zelenskyy spoke on the phone for roughly 40 minutes on Friday, the White House said. Ukraine's leader tweeted that the two discussed "strengthening sanctions, concrete defense assistance and an anti-war coalition."
The next statement was unable to be verify with NBCNews, Ukraine’s foreign minister had accused Russia of attacking a Ukrainian kindergarten and orphanage. He had said it's "war crimes"
New information coming from the The United Nations said to be confirmed that at least 25 people had been killed across Ukraine. To acknowledged that this could have been a underestimates.
The President of Ukraine Zelenskyy had said in a statement that about 137 people had been killed and 316 had been injured during the first day of the invasion. The Ukrainian government has said that Russia had lost more then a dozen aircraft, at least 80 tanks, and lost as many as 2,800 personnel. No number of death or injuries have confirmed.
NATO leaders called the attack “brutal and wholly unprovoked and unjustified,” in a news release which said Russia bore “full responsibility for this conflict” and would “pay a severe price, both economically and politically, for years to come.”
It's added that they have drawn up defense plans “deployed defensive land and air forces in the eastern part of the Alliance, and maritime assets across the NATO area.”
Putin held a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, claming in a readout that the Russian leader was ready to send a delegation to Minsk for negotiations with Ukrainian representatives.
But hours later, Putin used a televised meeting of his Security Council to call on the Ukrainian military to "take power into your own hands" because it would be easier for Russia to negotiate with the army, than with Zelenskyy. He said "gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis who have settled in Kyiv and took the entire Ukrainian people hostage.”
Lavrov had also earlier suggested that Moscow would only enter talks once Ukraine had laid down its weapons.
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