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Russian rockets destroy Ukrainian airbase: Interfax
STORY: The rocket assaults additionally hit an ammunition depot, Vasylkiv Mayor Natalia Balasynovych mentioned.Preventing raged northwest of Kyiv on Saturday, with the majority of Russian floor forces 25 km (16 miles) from the centre of the Ukrainian capital, whereas a number of different cities had been encircled and beneath heavy shelling, the UK protection ministry mentioned.Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk mentioned she hoped that a number of humanitarian corridors would open on Saturday for hundreds of residents within the bombarded cities, together with from the besieged port metropolis of Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia.Air-raid sirens blared throughout most Ukrainian cities on Saturday morning urging folks to hunt shelters, native media reported, after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned the battle had reached a “strategic turning level”.Russian forces gave the impression to be regrouping, probably for a recent offensive which might goal the capital Kyiv in a couple of days, Britain’s protection ministry mentioned on Friday (March 11). In a Saturday replace, it mentioned combating northwest of the capital continued and the cities of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol remained encircled beneath heavy Russian shelling.
