Zelensky says Ukraine's fate will be decided TONIGHT

Zelensky says Ukraine's fate will be decided TONIGHT

Russian troops were advancing on the center of Kyiv in the early hours of Saturday with fierce fighting by the city's zoo in the west, near the Beresteiska metro, and to the north, near the Troieshchyna thermal plant

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday night warned his people in an address to the nation that the capital, Kyiv, would be attacked overnight

For two nights in a row Russia has bombarded Kyiv, but Moscow in the early hours of Saturday began what it hopes to be a final push

Ukraine's armed forces said on Friday night that they had shot down south of Kyiv two Russian IL-76 military transport plane carrying Russian paratroopers, in Vasylkiv and in Bila Tserkva

Hours later they claimed to have downed in Donbas a helicopter and Su-25 ground attack jet, using surface-to-air missiles

Fierce fighting was reported in Troieshchyna, north of Kyiv - site of a thermal power station. The district has been under attack for several days with Russian seeking to control the city's vital infrastructure

Zelensky, speaking from a secret location in the capital, said: 'Russia will try to break our resistance with all its might. Tonight the enemy will begin storming us'

He urged Ukrainians to resist, adding that Chernihiv, Symy, Kharkiv, Donbass, and the south could all come under attack

Britain's Ministry of Defence said Russian forces are moving towards Kyiv from multiple directions, in an attempt to encircle the city

Vitali Klitschko, the former world champion heavyweight boxer who is now mayor of Kyiv, said the city faces a 'difficult night'

Volodymyr Zelensky, addressing the nation from a secret location in the capital, had a dire warning for his embattled and defiant people on Friday night.

'Russia will try to break our resistance with all its might,' he said, in a video posted to social media. 

'Tonight the enemy will begin storming us. We need to withstand them!'

Zelensky said that Chernihiv, Symy, Kharkiv, Donbas, and the south could also come under attack.

'This night will be difficult, very difficult. But the morning will come,' he said, according to The Kyiv Independent.

The 44-year-old referenced the Russian shelling of a kindergarten in Ukraine that killed at least one child and injured more, saying: 'What kind of war is that? Were these children neo-Nazi? Or were they NATO soldiers?' 

Vitali Klitschko, the former world champion heavyweight boxer who is now the mayor of Kyiv, said his city faces a 'difficult night'. 

Explosions at a metro station in Berezhestayskaya, Kyiv.

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