Russia announced its full control of the Ukrainian airspace, at a time when it intensified its ground operations and its forces were approaching the capital, Kyiv, which received more Western weapons and revealed the formation of an international legion;

In an attempt to stop the Russian advance as the war entered its sixth day.

Pictures taken by "Maxar" satellite company of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and its north showed that the Russian forces continue to approach the city, and the images show that the convoy - which was 72 kilometers from Kiev on Sunday - is now 27 kilometers from the capital.

According to "Maxar", the convoy extends for a distance of 27 kilometers, and includes hundreds of armored vehicles, tanks, artillery pieces and logistical support vehicles, and continues to move towards Kyiv.

The Russian bombardment of the Ukrainian capital was renewed on Monday evening, after the ceasefire negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Belarus ended, as Russian media said that the two delegations returned to their capitals for consultations before holding a new round.

Sirens sounded throughout Kyiv, where Al-Jazeera correspondent Al-Moataz Billah Hassan reported that 3 shells fell in the city's neighborhoods, and said that they caused explosions, which are among the most violent in the capital since the start of the war, and caused fires.

In the context of talking about the results of the war, Russia announced that its aviation had complete control of Ukrainian airspace.


land bridge

Russia continued its efforts to establish a land bridgehead inside the territory of Ukraine, to use it as a platform for expansion on the ground.

On the Black Sea, the city of Odessa was subjected to Russian bombardment, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

In the city of Kharkiv (the second largest Ukrainian city after the capital), Russian attempts to control the city continue.

These developments coincide with the exchange of artillery shelling in the Donbas region between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatist forces.

In the latest field developments in southern Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces had taken control of the towns of Berdyansk and Enerhodar (southeast), as well as the area around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

"The nuclear plant team continues its work in maintaining and controlling the facilities," the ministry's spokesman said.

On Monday, Russia announced that its forces are currently working to impose a siege on the city of Mariupol on the Sea of ​​Azov from all sides.

Ukraine confirmed that dozens of people were killed in missile strikes carried out by Russian forces on the city of Kharkiv (northeast) on Monday morning.

Ukraine's ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, said Russia had used a vacuum bomb on Monday in its "invasion of Ukraine".

"They used the vacuum bomb today, which is already prohibited by the Geneva Convention (...) the destruction that Russia is trying to inflict on Ukraine is great," she added, after giving testimony to members of the US Congress.


Weapons and volunteers

And the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense published that it was targeted by Bayraktar drones, Russian military vehicles in a number of areas of operations in Ukraine, and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov announced that more than 5,000 people were killed in the ranks of the Russian forces and hundreds of families were captured.

He said that "Russian soldiers have two options: either die in an unjust war or a blanket amnesty in exchange for surrender."

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said that it is working to create a new unit to accommodate foreign fighters who wish to volunteer to fight alongside the Ukrainian forces, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday the force, which he called the "International Legion".

The ministry stated that it had received requests from thousands of foreigners to join the resistance to the occupation and protect international security from Putin.

With the successive Western pledges to support Ukraine in the face of Russian forces, the European Union's foreign and security policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday that the member states of the Union are determined to increase their military support to Kiev, and are following up on their requests and needs and how to meet them.

Borrell announced that the Union assigned the satellite center in the Spanish capital, Madrid, to provide Ukraine with intelligence information about the movements of Russian forces.

He added that the European Union had set a special budget for the purchase of weapons for the defense of Ukraine, including anti-tank weapons.

It was announced yesterday that the countries of the Union decided to provide Kyiv with combat aircraft.