The Russian forces tightened their siege on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, as the largest military convoy approached the city, and is now 15 or 40 kilometers away from storming it, according to a US official.

Today, Russian aviation launched a series of air strikes on civilian targets in the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine, for the first time since the start of the war.

In addition, the Ukrainian army announced that it destructed 4 Russian Sukhoi 25 fighters, and downed two military helicopters in the past few days.