Ukrainian war, “Russia could enter Kiev today”: news February 25

War in Ukraine, Russian missiles at dawn on Kiev and Rivne airport. As Russia’s advance towards the capital continues, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publishes videos criticizing the US – which “watches from afar” – after stating that the country has been “left alone to fight” against Moscow. 08.01 – “Yesterday Russia was hit with sanctions, but they are not enough to get these foreign troops out of our territory. This can only be achieved with solidarity and determination”. This was stated by Volodymyr Zelensky in the new video message released this morning on Facebook and relaunched by CNN on what the Ukrainian president describes as the “second morning of total war”.
07.47 – “The goal of the Russians is to control Kiev, overthrow Zelensky and put a pro-Moscow regime in his place”. David Petraeus, the general of the Iraqi surge in 2007 who later became head of the CIA, told the press, explaining that “there are operations underway east of the Dnep, now the Russians control that strip of country; same thing on the southern front where the main ports of Odessa and Mariupol fell. In this way Ukrainians are denied access to the sea and creates a single strip from the Donbass to the extreme western coastal point. Whether from here and from the north they will march to Lviv, as it seems in the plans, it is more difficult to say. But be careful – he warns – to give up the game. It is true that the Russians already have control of an air base and a military base 30 kilometers from the capital, but the news on Ukrainian forces is mixed: there are groups that surrender but also those who have managed to shoot down helicopters and hold positions . In reality the question is whether the Ukrainian forces, the partisan and citizen brigades will fight, it will not be easy for the Russians to reach the goal despite military supremacy ”.
07.46 – New video message by Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president again criticizes his allies, the US first. He does it for the second time in a few hours after the message of the night in which he denounced how Ukraine was “left alone” in front of Russian forces. “This morning we are defending our country alone – he says in the video released this morning on Facebook and reported by CNN – Just like yesterday the most powerful country in the world was watching from afar”.
07.25 – Volodymyr Zelensky remains “a main target for Russian aggression”. The spokesman for the US State Department, Ned Price, told CNN. Zelensky, he said, “represents in many ways, even personifies, the democratic aspirations and ambitions of Ukraine, of the Ukrainian people” and thus “would certainly remain a prime target for Russian aggression”.
07.24 – “The most difficult day will be today. The enemy’s plan is to break through with tanks from Ivankiv and Chernihiv to Kiev”. This was stated by the adviser of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, Anton Gerashenko.
07.17 – Russia has already lost 800 men in Ukraine. According to the Kiev Ministry of Defense, according to the ‘enemy’ losses include seven planes, six helicopters, 130 armored vehicles and over 30 tanks.
07.01 – The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has announced that the military blew up a bridge over the Teteriv River, in Ivankiv, about fifty kilometers north of Kiev to block the advance of Russian forces towards the capital.
06.51 AM – Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian plane over Kiev. This was announced by an advisor to the Interior Ministry, according to which a nine-story residential building is on fire after the plane crashed in the capital.
06.49 AM – Kiev was hit by “a horrible missile attack”. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba denounced this in a tweet: “The last time our capital experienced something like this was in 1941, when it was attacked by Nazi Germany. Ukraine defeated evil and we will defeat it. once again. Stop Putin. Isolate Russia, cut off all relations “. HOURS 06.46 – A missile hit Rivne International Airport. This was announced by the mayor of the city of Oves of Ukraine, specifying that there is no serious damage or casualties at the moment.
06.44 – “There were several deaths and injuries during the night”. This was reported by border guards in the southeast of the country, in the Zaporizhzhya region, on the Sea of ​​Azov.
06.39 – At least three people were injured, one of them critically, after the missile attack conducted by Russian forces before dawn on Kiev. This was reported by the mayor of the capital Vitali Klitschko, who spoke of the fall of a missile on “a residential building in via Kosice”. 06.35 HOURS – Shortly before 7 am local time, 6 am in Italy, the sirens of the anti-aircraft alarms sounded in Kiev and Lviv, in the west of the country. The Ukrainian capital was hit by an attack “with cruise or ballistic missiles” before dawn, said Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko, while CNN spoke of two massive explosions in central Kiev and a third at a distance.ORE 06.06 – “We did everything to ensure that the diplomatic path prevailed. A few hours before the attack, we were discussing the Minsk agreements with Vladimir Putin. Yes, there was duplicity and the deliberate and conscious choice to unleash war , when we could still have peace “. This was underlined by French President Emmanuel Macron, at a late night press conference in Brussels, at the end of the extraordinary European Council dedicated to the war in Ukraine. Now it is necessary, Macron continued, “to keep the channels open in order to have a ceasefire. But the choice of the Russian president to go to war was deliberate and we must draw the consequences”. “I had a frank, quick and direct exchange with Putin: at the request of Volodymyr Zelensky I passed him a message. I passed a message from the Ukrainian president to the Russian president, but it had no effect, because Putin chose war,” he said. concluded.