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Ukraine 'obliterates Chechen special forces column with 56 tanks outside Kyiv and kills top general' as battle for capital enters third day: Russian airstrike hits radioactive waste disposal site and UN says 240 civilians are dead
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The group - likely to number in the hundreds - was blown to smithereens on their second day in the country
- Those killed include Chechen general Magomed Tushaev - one of the regime's most highly-decorated soldiers
- Vladimir Putin had green-lighted their deployment, with each fighter given a deck of cards to help them recognize Ukrainian leaders they were encouraged to capture and kill
- But Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky is still reported to be alive - and is fast becoming a global hero - while Putin has faced scorn over his huge army's slow progress to capture the country
- On Sunday morning, Ukrainian government ministers confirmed they'd managed to keep control of the capital city of Kyiv for the third night running
- But Russian forces entered Kharkiv - Ukraine's second-largest city - around the same time, with street battles reported to be taking place
- Russia has struck the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine in Kyiv, which stores nuclear waste
- The facility's radiation detector was also destroyed - although a preliminary inspection suggests there is no immediate danger to locals
- First confirmed death toll has also emerged - UN says at least 240 Ukrainian citizens have been killed
- Woman was killed in Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, after Russian artillery shell struck nine-story residential apartment building
- Two blasts went off in the south west of the Ukrainian capital shortly after midnight local time
- A fuel depot in the city of Vasylkiv was targeted by Russian ballistic missiles, its mayor said
- Russia also blew up a gas pipeline in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, which sits close to the Russian border
- Vladimir Putin is said to be furious at his troops' apparent lack of progress, and is reportedly fuming in his heavily-guarded Russian mountain lair
- An eerie orange glow filled the sky, CNN reports that a fuel depot may have been hit
- Blast took place close to one of Kyiv's two airports - Boryspil International Airport, whose capture is vital to Russian takeover ambitions
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-02-27 |
