Russians build trenches to protect military positions northwest of Kiev

The Russian military is literally digging, building earthen trenches around its military equipment northwest of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, according to analysis and satellite imagery by Maxar Technologies.

The new satellite images show the protective berms around Russian military equipment near Ozera and Antonov Air Base.

Additional Russian military equipment and some trench construction are also seen in the Zdvyzhivka and Berestyanka regions further to the northwest.

Ukraine’s Armed Forces issued an optimistic assessment of its defense of Kiev, saying Russia’s two main routes to attack the capital had been blocked.

Faced with a move to apparently surround the capital ahead of a possible attempt to take it, Russian forces on both sides of the Dnipro River – which divides the city from north to south – were stopped, according to Oleksandr Hruzevych, deputy chief of police. army personnel.

Source: CNN Brasil

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