Fight to the death if they try to take Kiev, Zelensky says[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
Fight to the death if they try to take Kiev, Zelensky says.
Kiev authorities say they have secured sufficient food supplies for two weeks in case the capital is placed under siege."
"Kiev's two million residents who have not left their homes will not be left without support if the situation deteriorates," local authorities said, according to Reuters.
Fight to the death if they try to take Kiev
At the same time, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russian forces that they would face a fight to the death if they tried to take Kiev, while air raid sirens woke up residents again this morning.
"If they decide to flatten by bombing and just erase the history of this region ... and destroy all of us, then they will enter Kiev. If that is their goal, let them come, but they will have to make it on their own to live in this land," Zelensky said yesterday, Saturday.
The president, who has repeatedly appeared on social media from the capital, said some small towns were no longer suffering during the third week of Russian attacks, the largest invasion of a European country since World War II.
Trapped thousands of residents
Russian bombing has trapped thousands of people in besieged towns while 2.5 million Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries.
Kiev denounces the kidnapping of a second mayor
At the same time, Russian forces have kidnapped the mayor of the southern city of Dniproudne, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba.
Yevhen Matveyev will be the second Ukrainian mayor reportedly kidnapped by advancing Russian troops in the past three days, after Russian forces reportedly abducted the mayor of nearby Melitopol on Friday
Kuleba says "Russian war criminals" have kidnapped Matveyev, the BBC reports.
"Receiving zero support from local populations, the invaders are turning to terrorism. I call on all states and international organisations to stop Russian terrorism against Ukraine and democracy," it says."
Putin does not seem ready to make peace
Ukraine yesterday, Saturday, accused Russian forces of killing seven civilians in an attack on women and children fleeing fighting near Kiev. France said Russian President Vladimir Putin did not appear ready to make peace.
The Ukrainian intelligence service said the seven, including a child, were killed as they fled the village of Peremoha and that "the invaders forced those left in the convoy to turn back".
Source: in.gr
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