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Invading Russian forces are approaching Kyiv from the north and northeast, Ukraine’s army said Friday, with rising fears the capital could fall on the second day of the Russian attack. 

Russian soldiers are trying to “bypass” the northern city of Chernihiv — where they were “rebuffed” by the Ukrainian army — to attack Kyiv, the army said on Facebook, adding that the troops were advancing on the capital from the eastern city of Konotop, which they now control.