Ukrainian forces shot down multiple jets and tanks in Kyiv, as Russian forces continued to advance towards the capital.
On Wednesday, elderly volunteers fought back against the invading Russians and took out a missile near Kyiv’s central station, which halted the massive enemy convoy from entering the city.
Kyiv’s men hit back at Russian invaders by downing jets and ambushing tanks https://t.co/xBBTuN8kbZ pic.twitter.com/mSCokWBW6P
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) March 4, 2022
“In my old age, I had to take up arms,” said 68-year-old Andrey Goncharuk. He said the fighters needed more weapons, but “we’ll kill the enemy and take their weapons.”
Zelensky praised the resiliency of his country amid the ongoing Russian invasion.
“We are a people who in a week have destroyed the plans of the enemy,” he said in a taped address on Thursday. “They will have no peace here. They will have no food. They will have here not one quiet moment.”
Since Monday, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has intensified after bombing the country’s second-largest city of Kharkiv. Zelensky called the deadly missile strikes a “war crime”.
“The strike against Kharkiv is a war crime. This is state terrorism on the part of Russia,” Zelensky said in a video. “No one will forgive. No one will ever forget.”
Putin has insisted that his country is not bombing Ukrainianian cities, despite several reports of rampant shellings across Ukraine.
Speaking on a call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday, Putin dismissed all reports of Russian attacks on Ukrainian residential areas as ‘fake’.
This comes after Putin accused Ukrainians on TV of using civilians as ‘human shields’, while also vowing to continue his full-scale military operation in the country.
For the first time since the invasion started, Russia reported its war casualties, saying that 500 troops were killed and 1,600 wounded, which were far lower than the 5,000 Russian deaths reported by Western media.
Peace talks between the two nations are expected to resume on Thursday following a failed peace negotiation that first occurred on Monday.
Vladimir Medinsky, Putin’s top aide and head of the Russian delegation, said that Russia and Ukraine spoke for five hours during the Monday meeting, claiming that both countries have “found certain points on which common positions could be foreseen.”
