In Ukraine, on Friday, March 11, emergency workers rushed to places of Russian military’s air strikes in new cities that had not been targeted in the first two weeks of Russian invasion. Occupation forces managed to close in on capital Kyiv, while border guard said 215 000 Ukrainian citizens had returned to the country, BBC and Ukrinform report.
In Dnipro, east-central Ukraine, officials have reported of three air strikes: hitting a small shoe factory, an apartment block and a kindergarten. One person was killed in the attack.
In Lutsk, a city in the north-west of Ukraine, two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and six were injured in a Russian attack, said the head of the Lutsk regional administration, Yuriy Pohulyayko.
The Russian Defence Ministry has stated that its forces hit military airfields in the western Ukrainian cities of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk on Friday.
A senior US defence official has stated that Russian forces have moved five kilometres closer to Kyiv in the past 24 hours, BBC reports.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that on Wednesday, 40 000 civilians had been evacuated from cities attacked by Russian forces. Here is Zelenskyy’s latest address in Ukrainian with subtitles in English.
Massive movement of people continued over Ukraine’s eastern border on Wednesday, March 10. «Over the past 24 hours, about 118,000 people have crossed the border, of course, the vast majority – women, children,» the spokesman spokesman for the State Border Guard Service Andriy Demchenko stated.
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In the opposite direction, approximately 215,000 citizens had returned to Ukraine from other countries, 80% of whom are men, Demchenko said not specifying the period of time for this migration, Ukrinform and BBC report.