{"id":1345004,"date":"2022-02-26T09:08:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1345004"},"modified":"2022-02-26T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:09:06","slug":"pics-kyiv-scarred-by-night-of-battle-with-russian-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pics-kyiv-scarred-by-night-of-battle-with-russian-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"PICS: Kyiv Scarred by Night of Battle with Russian Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpics-kyiv-scarred-by-night-of-battle-with-russian-forces%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1345004&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">(AFP) \u2014 Ukrainian forces repulsed a Russian attack on Kyiv (Kiev) but \u201csabotage groups\u201d infiltrated the capital, officials said Saturday as a defiant President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Ukraine would never give in.<\/p>\n<p>On the third day of an invasion that Ukraine said has killed 198 civilians including three children, Russia also brushed off the barrage of Western sanctions and said it had fired cruise missiles at military targets.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Wearing olive green military-style clothing and looking tired but determined, Zelensky spoke in a video message posted on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am here. We will not lay down any weapons. We will defend our state, because our weapons are our truth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur truth is that this is our land, our country, our children and we will protect all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20026778\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768579.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20026778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768579-1024x667-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"645\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian service members look for and collect unexploded shells after a fight with a Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on the morning of February 26th, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. Ukrainian soldiers repulsed a Russian attack in the capital, the military said on February 26th after a defiant President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed his pro-Western country would not be bowed by Moscow. It started the third day since Russian leader Vladimir Putin unleashed a full-scale invasion that has killed dozens of people, forced more than 50,000 to flee Ukraine in just 48 hours and sparked fears of a wider conflict in Europe.\u00a0 (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed a full-scale invasion that has forced tens of thousands to flee their homes and sparked fears of a wider conflict in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought something like this might happen but we were hoping until the end that it wouldn\u2019t,\u201d Irina Butyak, a 38-year-old teacher, told AFP as she took shelter in a basement in Kyiv, where explosions were heard through the night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were hoping that common sense and common decency would prevail. Well, it didn\u2019t,\u201d said Butyak, who hoped she would be able to escape soon to western Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20026794\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768836.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20026794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768836-1024x609-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"589\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian service members look for and collect unexploded shells after a fight with a Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on the morning of February 26th, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron warned that the world must brace for a long war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis crisis will last, this war will last and all the crises that come with it will have lasting consequences,\u201d Macron said, adding: \u201cWe must be prepared\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>After speaking to Macron, Zelensky tweeted to thank \u201cpartners\u201d for sending weapons and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe anti-war coalition is working,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20026802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768679.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20026802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768679-1024x655-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"633\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian service members are seen at the site of a fight with a Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on the morning of February 26th, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene.\u00a0 (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>AFP reporters in Kyiv heard occasional blasts of what soldiers said were artillery and Grad missiles being fired in an area northwest of the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>There were also loud explosions in the centre.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20026810\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768447.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20026810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768447-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Firefighters extinguish a fire in a high-rise apartment block which was hit by recent shelling in Kyiv on February 26th, 2022. (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Emergency services said a high-rise apartment block was hit by shelling overnight, posting a picture that showed a hole covering at least five floors blasted into the side of the building. Kyiv\u2019s mayor, Vitaly Klitschko, said that the building had been hit by a missile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe night was difficult, but there are no Russian troops in the capital,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe enemy is trying to break into the city, in particular from Gostomel, Zhytomyr, where the aggressors are neutralized,\u201d he said, referring to two settlements to the northwest and west of the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow in Kyiv there are, unfortunately, sabotage groups, there were several clashes, shootings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20026818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768458-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20026818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768458-1-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>\u00a0A view of a high-rise apartment block which was hit by recent shelling in Kyiv on February 26th, 2022. (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a northern district of the city, AFP on Friday saw a dead man in civilian clothes lying sprawled on the pavement as nearby medics rushed to help another man whose car was crushed by an armoured vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s defence ministry said \u201ctwo enemy targets were shot down\u201d \u2014 identifying them as a Russian SU-25 helicopter and a military bomber \u2014 near the separatist zone in the east of the country.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian Ilyushin Il-76 transport plane had also been \u201cknocked down\u201d near Vasylkiv, a town roughly 30 kilometres (19 miles) southwest of Kyiv, the ministry added on its official Facebook page.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20026834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238769268.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20026834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238769268-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A view of a high-rise apartment block which was hit by recent shelling in Kyiv on February 26th, 2022. (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zelensky\u2019s aide Mykhailo Podolyak said more than 3,500 Russian soldiers had been killed and nearly 200 captured, without providing evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has yet to report on casualties.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20026858\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238769059.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20026858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238769059-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Firefighters work by a high-rise apartment block which was hit by recent shelling in Kyiv on February 26th, 2022. (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The United States, Canada, Britain and the European Union doled out further sanctions on Russia on Friday, including against Putin himself and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.<\/p>\n<p>Russia said the sanctions against the pair were \u201ca demonstration of the complete impotence of the foreign policy\u201d of the West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reached the line after which the point of no return begins,\u201d Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow also vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that deplored \u201cin the strongest terms\u201d Russia\u2019s invasion, while China, India and the United Arab Emirates abstained.<\/p>\n<p>While sanctions have focused on finances, travel and the economy, there have also been repercussions in the worlds of culture and sports.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest development, Poland on Saturday said it would refuse to play its 2022 World Cup play-off against Russia on March 24.<\/p>\n<p>But, despite Zelensky calling on Western allies to expel Moscow from the SWIFT banking transfer system, numerous EU countries, including Germany, Hungary, and Italy, have been reluctant over fears Russia could cut off gas supplies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20026874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768484.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20026874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768484-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Firefighters extinguish a fire in a high-rise apartment block which was hit by recent shelling in Kyiv on February 26th, 2022. (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When he announced the assault in a pre-dawn television statement on Thursday, Putin called it a \u201cspecial military operation\u201d aimed at defending Russia-backed separatists in the east.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s communications regulator on Saturday told independent media to remove reports describing it as an \u201cassault, invasion, or declaration of war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Roskomnadzor accused the media outlets of spreading \u201cunreliable socially significant untrue information\u201d about the shelling of Ukrainian cities by the Russian army and civilian deaths.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20026882\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768072.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20026882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768072-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian service members are seen at the site of a fight with a Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on the morning of February 26th, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The conflict has rattled eastern members of the EU and the US-led military alliance NATO which were once dominated by Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>NATO said it was deploying its rapid response forces for the first time to bolster defences on its eastern flank.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Poland has been taking in thousands of Ukrainian refugees who have been arriving by train, in cars and on foot in the border city of Przemysl.<\/p>\n<p>Polish Deputy Interior Minister Pawel Szefernaker on Saturday said 100,000 people have crossed the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the onset of warfare in Ukraine through today, along the entire border with Ukraine, 100,000 people have crossed the border from Ukraine into Poland,\u201d Szefernaker told reporters in the border village of Medyka, southeastern Poland.<\/p>\n<p>The UN said more than 50,000 Ukrainians had fled the country in the past two days, calling for \u201csafe unimpeded access\u201d for aid operations.<\/p>\n<p>About 100,000 people are believed to be internally displaced.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20026898\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768271.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20026898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238768271-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian service members are seen at the site of a fight with a Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on the morning of February 26th, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. 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