Military Hardware Coming Into Besieged Kyiv For Defense

By AFP.

Published Feb. 25, 2022 at 4:12 pm

A man clears debris at a damaged residential building at Koshytsa Street, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, where a military shell hit on Feb. 25, 2022. Russian forces reached the outskirts of Kyiv on Friday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the invading troops were targeting civilians and explosions in besieged capital. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP)

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Military hardware is arriving in the Ukrainian capital to shore up its defence capability in the face of today’s prolonged and ongoing rocket and ground attack, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s site.

Spokesman Vadym Denysenko said “Ukrainian military hardware is coming into the capital right now to assist the defence of Kyiv.”

He confirmed that handguns have been given out to volunteers on the streets who want to protect the capital.

According to the Interior Ministry a Russian saboteur group was successfully destroyed in the capital today.