Russian army continues encirclement of Kiev

The Ukrainian authorities are preparing for an assault in the “coming days” and promise a “fierce resistance”.

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The fights are continuing around Kiev. The Russian army continues for the moment its maneuver of encirclement of the city by the West and East. The vise narrows inexorably, despite a fierce Ukrainian resistance in places. While some Russian advances look strong, others look like attempts to test Ukrainian defenses, sometimes followed by a decline or redeployment. Monday, March 14, Russian artillery shots on a building have made a death, according to relief on the spot.

In the northwest of Kiev, while the Irpine village seemed to live his last hours of resistance on March 6, she was finally still not controlled by the Russian army a week after Sunday March 13th. The armored columns are still in Bantha, north, and the sporadically irpine artillery, sometimes furrowed by mobile Russian units.

Deployment south

On this west forehead, instead of trying to permanently control irpine and thus achieve the administrative limit of Kiev, the Russian army has spread south, cutting the road to Jytomyr, 150 kilometers from Kiev. , a strategic axis between the capital and the west of the country. In the north-east of Kiev, at least one armored column has reached Brovary, also at the edge of the city, before being, on March 10, set. The Ukrainian ambuscade was filmed by a drone and broadcast on social networks. The fights always rage around Brovary and along the road coming from Chernihiv.

Kiev is still open to the south. If Vassylkiv Airport has been hit hard on March 12 by air raids that have destroyed an oil depot, the roads of the South are practicable, allowing Kievians to flee and the capital to be refitted. Kiev is thus still connected, by bypassing Jytomyr, to the refuge city of Lviv, in the west of the country, as well as the five countries of its western border (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova).

The debate that agitates military analysts and the media on “encirclement” or even “the seat”, of Kiev seems very premature. Not only the roads of the South are still open, not only the railway lines west still work, but no one knows if the Russian army has to continue the encirclement of the city or if it goes, once its columns arrived at Northwest and Northeast Limits of Kiev, order an assault.

Weapons and ammunition in caches

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