On March 1, Russian forces launched many attacks on key Ukrainian cities and reinforced forces to the capital Kiev.
There is much information that the city of Mariupol, southern Ukraine, is besieged by Russian forces.
Donbass separatist leader Denis Pushilin said on March 1 that their forces would surround Mariupol.
Mariupol, an industrial center, is considered a key target and has been the scene of major fighting since Russia launched its military campaign in Ukraine.
Telegraph reporter Roland Oliphant previously posted on Twitter that a Ukrainian soldier told him that Ukrainian forces in Mariupol were surrounded.
Vitaliy Gyrin, head of the Adonis obstetrics clinic near Kiev, said his facility was hit by a rocket.
Witnesses in Kiev also heard a series of loud explosions on the night of March 1.
Video appeared on social networks today showing a residential area in the small town of Borodjanka, about 30km from the capital Kiev, damaged after the attack.
`Look what’s happening,` a man shouts in the video, while smoke still rises nearby.
An apartment complex in the town of Borodjanka, west of the capital Kiev, was damaged after an attack.
In the video, the restaurant on the first floor of the complex is reduced to rubble, with some people running away.
`A plane dropped 3-4 bombs here,` one person said in the video.
Rescuers at the scene of an air strike near the Kiev television tower on March 1.
Meanwhile, a housing complex in the city of Zhytomyr west of Kiev caught fire after being hit by a Russian cruise missile, Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Minister, announced on Telegram.
Russia increased its bombardment of Kiev
The scene of the Zhytomyr city housing complex, west of Kiev, caught fire due to a rocket on the night of March 1.
Gerashchenko said that this missile was launched from Belarus and was likely aimed at the nearby Ukrainian 95th Airborne Brigade base.
Local residents and rescuers search under rubble in Zhytomyr, after an air strike damaged 10 houses.
Kharkov, Ukraine’s second largest city and located in the northeastern part of the country, continued to suffer intense shelling last night.
Kharkov had previously suffered continuous shelling.
Russia increased its bombardment of Kiev
The city of Kharkov was bombed on the evening of March 1.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the operation in Ukraine will continue until `the set goals are achieved`, including the `demilitarization and de-fascization` of Ukraine, as well as the defense of the country.
Satellite images released on March 1 showed that a convoy of Russian military vehicles including tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and other specialized vehicles had arrived on the outskirts of Kiev.
Satellite photo of a Russian military convoy approaching Kiev on February 28.
On March 1, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it would attack the facilities of the security forces and a Ukrainian special unit in the capital Kiev, to prevent `information attacks` against Russia.
Anton Herashchenko, advisor to Ukraine’s Interior Minister, later said Russian forces had attacked a television tower in the capital Kiev and disrupted the signal.
Smoke rises from the television tower in Kiev on March 1.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that `the Ukrainian army’s exit route to the Sea of Azov has been blocked`, adding that forward detachments of the armed forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) have reached the provincial border.
`Russian armed forces attacked two airports and three Ukrainian air defense radar stations with high-precision weapons. 1,325 Ukrainian military infrastructure were destroyed. Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) gunmen
Leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin said the separatists’ mission today is to directly surround Mariupol.
Ukraine said Russia attacked the Kiev television tower
The image is said to be a television tower attacked in Kiev today.
Ukraine said it had eliminated hundreds of Russian assets, including 29 aircraft, 29 helicopters and 198 tanks.
Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, governor of Ukraine’s Sumi region, confirmed that about 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after shelling targeting barracks and fuel tanks at the base in the city of Okhtyrka, northeastern Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden directed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to immediately release $350 million to help Ukraine increase its defense capacity, but Washington officials admit that aid packages to Ukraine are now much more difficult.
The British Ministry of Defense today issued an update on military intelligence information, saying that Russian forces have not advanced much in Kiev in the past 24 hours, most likely due to logistical problems.
Russian forces have now controlled Berdyansk, a coastal city in southeastern Ukraine.
War hotspots in Ukraine.
Alyona Panina, a Ukrainian reporter, said the city of Kherson in the south of the country was surrounded by Russian forces.
United Nations statistics show that about 12 million people in Ukraine need assistance, about one million people have lost their homes and more than 677,000 people have evacuated abroad.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire announced that the country was initiating a `comprehensive financial and economic war against Russia`, emphasizing that the sanctions were `exceptionally effective`.
The Kremlin affirms that Western sanctions will never cause Russia to change its stance on the Ukraine issue.
China has begun evacuating citizens from Ukraine.
