Ukraine military says it is ‘holding the line’ in defense of Kyiv

By AP 9 March 2022, 8:51 am

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Tania Boyko, 20, and her dog Kari sit on a makeshift bed in a underground metro station used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv on March 8, 2022. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / STF / AFP)

LVIV — The general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces says the country is building up its defense of key cities in the north, south and east as Russia’s advance has stalled.

In a statement early Wednesday, it said that forces around Kyiv are resisting the Russian offensive with unspecified strikes and “holding the line.”

The Ukrainian general staff says that in the northern city of Chernihiv, Russian forces are placing military equipment among residential buildings and on farms.

And in the south, it says Russians dressed in civilian clothes are advancing on the city of Mykolaiv.