Ukrainians were told to seek shelter early Saturday morning as Russian troops invaded Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, and the Sumy region.
“It’s ugly already, but it’s going to get worse,” said Nick Reynolds, a warfare analyst at Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank.
A total of 7,144 people were evacuated from four Ukrainian cities on Friday, Zelensky said in a televised address – a notably lower number than managed to leave in each of the two previous days. Nearly 40,000 people fled a number of cities through humanitarian corridors on Thursday, on top of the 35,000 who fled on Wednesday, Ukrainian authorities said.
. Ukrainian ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya replied with a photo of the mother and her “healthy daughter,” Veronika, who was born Thursday night. BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images “They have transitioned into a new stage of terror, in which they try to physically liquidate representatives of Ukraine’s lawful local authorities,” Zelensky said in a video address Friday night.
Russia said it used long-range weapons to bomb military airfields in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk in the west, putting them “out of action,” according to officials. The attack on Lutsk killed four Ukrainian servicemen, the city’s mayor said.Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city with about 1 million residents, was also targeted by airstrikes for the first time on Friday, killing one person, according to Ukrainian officials.
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