Kyiv has reportedly been turned into a “fortress” as brave Ukrainians brace for a full-scale Russian siege.
As the miles-long Russian convoy closes in on the embattled nation’s capital, Putin’s tanks have been spotted just miles from Kyiv with Russian troops amassing on the city’s outskirts.
In preparation for a full-blown attack, “every street and every house” in Kyiv has reportedly been fortified in a bid to hold off the invaders.
“Every street, every house is being fortified, the territorial defense is joining,” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said as he suggested the city was “turned into a fortress.”
“Even people who in their lives never intended to change their clothes, now they are in uniform with machine guns in their hands,” he added.
While the army is helping fortify buildings and preparing civilians for the fight against Russian troops, some two million residents have already fled the city.
The authorities also confirmed that some 80,000 people were evacuated from nearby areas in the last two days alone.
The concerning development in the region comes shortly after President Zelensky issued a chilling message to the world and said millions of people will die if the West fails to act immediately.
“They want us to feel like animals because they blocked our cities, the biggest cities in Ukraine and they blocked them because they don’t want our people to get some food or water,” Zelensky told Sky News.
“We can’t stop all of this alone. Only if the world will unite around Ukraine. Don’t wait for me to ask you several times, a million times, to close the sky. You have to phone us, to our people who lost their children, and say ‘sorry we didn’t do it yesterday.’
“The world did nothing. I’m sorry, but it’s true. In future, it will be too late. They will close the sky but will lose millions of people [while they wait].”
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