The Russia-Ukraine crisis enters day three on Saturday with the Russuan troops steadily advancing into Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, with a series of explosion from cruise missiles hitting Ukrainian military bases.
With the Russian military hitting Ukraine from all fronts, President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a late night message on Friday, said the fate of the country would be decided shortly, adding that “kindergartens and civilian infrastructures” were being shelled by Russian forces.
Zelenskyy also appealed for a cease-fire and warned in a bleak statement that multiple cities were under attack.
“This night they will storm,” he said, amid reports of hundreds of casualties including shelling that sliced through a Kyiv apartment building and pummeled bridges and schools, with fears that Russia may be seeking to overthrow Ukraine’s government, which US officials have described as Putin’s ultimate objective.
:It would be his boldest effort yet to redraw the world map and revive Moscow’s Cold War-era influence,” a US security expert said in an interview.
As the Russian strikes continued to pummel Ukraine’s military facilities, the Russian military affirmed that it has launched a barrage of cruise missiles aimed at weakening any resistance from its neighbours
