As the sixth day of war draws to a close, Russian forces are stepping up strikes and tightening their grip on several of the country’s major cities, including the capital Kiev. But for now, the Ukrainians and their government are not backing down.
Throughout the day, the media and social networks reported the slow but worrying progress of a gigantic column of Russian vehicles, about 65 kilometers long, towards Kiev. We can assume that these units will be deployed in an attempt to encircle the Ukrainian capital, a very large city with, before the war, nearly 2.8 million inhabitants.
On the evening of March 1, Russian forces resumed shelling Kiev, targeting communications systems and some strategic buildings, among other things. But report Oukraïnska Pravda in his live dedicated to the war, “despite shooting at the Kiev TV tower, transmissions have resumed”.
“Spring Gifts”
Among other news of the day, the Ukrainian army reportedly “received spring gifts” – in Eastern Europe, the first day of March is often considered the harbinger of spring – namely “dozens of NLAW anti-tank missiles and Javelins”, ironically the daily online.
Furthermore, the Ukrainian forces “would have eliminated an elite group of ‘kadyrovtsi’ [des Tchétchènes fidèles à Ramzan Kadyrov et Poutine] who planned to kill President Zelensky”.
Finally, Internet users and the Ukrainian services would have “succeeded in obtaining the personal data of 120,000 Russian servicemen who are currently waging war in Ukraine, their surnames, their first names, their numbers and their place of duty of departure”.
Call to Europe
On the diplomatic front, Kiev hopes to have scored points with the video intervention of Volodymyr Zelensky before the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “In his speech, the president stressed that Ukraine was paying too high a price for its freedom,” reports the same site, and it added:
Ukraine has long chosen Europe. Now the time is
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