The Russians in Kiev: “Make Molotov cocktails, neutralize the enemy,” the Interior Ministry tells citizens

Fighting broke out this morning in a northern suburb of Kiev, according to an AFP reporter. Exchanges of fire and explosions were heard in the Oblonsky suburb, and many low-key explosions were heard in the city center.

The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on its Facebook page that it was a sabotage operation by Russian forces carried out by a military reconnaissance unit.

In the same message the ministry asks suburbanites to take up armsas broadcast by the French Agency and rebroadcast by the Athenian News Agency.

“We ask the citizens to inform us about the movements of the enemy, make Molotov cocktails, neutralize the enemy!”wrote the message.

On the second day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fighting intensifies around Kiev.

Earlier in the day, Ukrainian forces said they were fighting Russian armored units in two cities, Dimer and Ivankiv, 45 and 80 kilometers north of Kiev, respectively.

“Ukraine’s air force units are fighting around the cities of Dimer and Ivankiv, where a large number of enemy armor has arrived,” the Ukrainian army said on its Facebook page.

According to this post, the advance “of the superior forces of the army stopped in the river Teterov. “The bridge over the river was destroyed.”

The Ukrainian army’s general staff also noted that Ukrainian forces were controlling the Antonov military airport in Gostomel, near the gates of Kiev, which had been attacked yesterday by Russian forces, which were repulsed.

“A regular unit of the security forces is controlling the Gostomel airport where Russian airborne units had infiltrated yesterday,” he noted on Facebook.