The Russian navy on Wednesday threatened to strike Ukraine’s command centres withinside the capital Kyiv if Ukrainian troops maintain to assault Russian territory.
“We are seeing Ukrainian troops’ tries to perform sabotage and strike Russian territory,” the Russian defence ministry stated in a statement. “If such instances maintain, the Russian military will strike decision-making centres, along with in Kyiv.”
Since President Vladimir Putin despatched troops to Ukraine on February 24, Moscow has accused Kyiv forces of attacking territory in southern Russian.
Earlier this month, Russian troops pulled again from regions north of Kyiv and at the moment are refocusing their efforts on taking pictures greater territory in japanese Ukraine.
The Russian defence ministry showed that its troops had now complete manipulate of the port withinside the besieged town of Mariupol.
The ministry delivered that Ukrainian troops and individuals of the Azov battalion have been encircled and “disadvantaged of the possibility to escape”.
Members of the Azov battalion were fiercely combating Russians in Mariupol, positioned withinside the country’s southeast among Russia-occupied Crimea and pro-Russian separatist areas in Ukraine’s east.