The images underscored the determined resistance Russian troops face while attempting to enter Ukraine's bigger cities. One showed Ukrainian troops firing at the Russians and damaged Russian light utility vehicles abandoned nearby.
Videos posted on Ukrainian media and social networks showed Russian vehicles moving across Kharkiv and Russian troops roaming the city in small groups. Until Sunday, Russia's troops had remained on the outskirts of Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million about 20 kilometers 12.4 miles south of the border with Russia, while other forces rolled past to press the offensive deeper into Ukraine. Zelensky suggested other locations, saying his country was unwilling to meet in Belarus because it served as a staging ground for the invasion. "There is not a single facility in the country that the occupiers wouldn't consider as admissible targets."įollowing its gains to the east in the city of Kharkiv and multiple ports, Russia sent a delegation to Belarus for peace talks with Ukraine, according to the Kremlin. "The past night was tough – more shelling, more bombing of residential areas and civilian infrastructure," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
A fragment of a destroyed Russian tank is seen on the roadside on the outskirts of Kharkiv on February 26, 2022. Terrified residents instead hunkered down in homes, underground garages and subway stations in anticipation of a full-scale Russian assault. Only an occasional car appeared on a deserted main boulevard as a strict 39-hour curfew kept people off the streets. The capital, Kyiv, was eerily quiet after huge explosions lit up the morning sky and authorities reported blasts at one of the airports.
The alarming step came as street fighting broke out in Ukraine's second-largest city and Russian troops squeezed strategic ports in the country's south, advances that appeared to mark a new phase of Russia's invasion following a wave of attacks on airfields and fuel facilities elsewhere in the country. That would mark a worrisome escalation and a potential crisis, he said. If Putin is arming or otherwise raising the nuclear combat readiness of his bombers, or if he is ordering more ballistic missile submarines to sea, then the United States might feel compelled to respond in kind, according to Hans Kristensen, a nuclear analyst at the Federation of American Scientists. "President Putin is continuing to escalate this war in a manner that is totally unacceptable, and we have to continue to condemn his actions in the strongest possible way," Thomas-Greenfield said. will "continue here at the United Nations and around the world to use every possible lever we have at our disposal to expose his actions." Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield denounced the move as a "totally unacceptable" escalation, telling "Face the Nation" on Sunday morning that the U.S. Putin threatened in the days before Russia's invasion to retaliate harshly against any nations that intervened directly in the conflict in Ukraine, and he specifically raised the specter of his country's status as a nuclear power. Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, February 21, 2022. "Western countries aren't only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere, but top officials from leading NATO members made aggressive statements regarding our country," Putin said in televised comments.
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