Satellite images taken on Monday in Ukraine showed a Russian military convoy of more than 60 km in length advancing towards the capital Kyiv, which Russia has made a major target for the military operation it is launching against its neighbor, while Ukraine confirmed that it had shot down Russian planes and bombed Russian convoys.

Those pictures were published by the American company that specializes in satellite imaging, "Maxar", and attached them to a message in which it said that the convoy "runs from the border of Antonov Airport (about 25 kilometers from the center of Kyiv) in the south to the outskirts of Pribersk in the north.

Since the beginning of the Russian war on Ukraine, Antonov Airport has witnessed fierce battles, as the attacking forces seek to control this strategic facility in order to facilitate their control of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.


The American company published other photos that showed a new deployment of Russian forces - via attack helicopters and military vehicles - in Belarus, less than 30 km from the border with Ukraine.

Since the Russian forces began their attack on Ukraine last Thursday, the Ukrainian forces have succeeded until today in defending the center of the capital and repelling the Russian attacks on it. On the sixth day since the start of the war, the progress of the Russian forces is still "slow", knowing that these forces are massing around the capital.


113 missiles

The Ukrainian Army Staff accused Russia of bombing Ukrainian cities since the beginning of the attack with 113 Iskander and Kalibr missiles.

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said that the Russian forces began an offensive in the Kherson province (southern of the country), and that they were advancing from the airport side to the Mykolaiv highway and near the district's cooling station.

The ministry also talked about the downing of 5 Russian fighters, "Sukhoi-35" and "Sukhoi-30" since the start of the attack.

Ukraine's ambassador to Washington, Oksana Markarova, announced that Russia had used a vacuum bomb in its attacks on Ukraine, a weapon prohibited under the Geneva Convention.


And US media quoted the Ukrainian ambassador - after her meeting with members of the US Congress - as saying, "The Russians used the vacuum bomb in Ukraine today, the use of which is prohibited under the Geneva Convention. The destruction that Russia is trying to cause in Ukraine is enormous."

Commenting on the Ukrainian ambassador's comments, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said at the daily briefing, "We have heard this news, but we have not been able to confirm it yet. If this is true, it would be a war crime."

A vacuum bomb is a non-nuclear bomb that has a high destructive power.

Kyiv called on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to establish a no-fly zone, especially in the west of the country, to protect the land crossings.


separatist war

In eastern Ukraine, the separatists in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions rushed to fully control the two regions and completely separate them from Ukraine.

The battles are taking place on the line of contact separating the areas controlled by the Ukrainian government and the areas controlled by the separatists in the two regions.

The separatists say they have captured 15 towns west of the line of contact;

To expand the area of ​​their control towards the west.

While the Ukrainian government asserts that a number of towns over which the separatists have declared control are still under government authority;

The most prominent of these are the two towns of Tlakovka Glutovka, near the city of Maripol.


Wagner and Legion of Fighters

The British newspaper, The Times, said that 400 Wagner mercenaries are deployed in Kyiv on the orders of the Kremlin to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and members of his government.

She added that the Wagner Group, owned by a close associate of Putin, had transferred mercenaries from Africa five weeks ago to conduct operations in Ukraine.

In turn, the Pentagon talked about the deployment of Wagner forces in Ukraine.

For his part, the Ukrainian president announced the establishment of an international corps of foreign fighters to defend Ukraine against Russian forces.

Zelensky called on volunteers from around the world to go to Ukrainian embassies to facilitate their travel procedures to his country.


Montreux Convention

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced that Turkey decided to ban the passage of military ships from the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits based on the Montreux Convention, and said that the countries bordering the Black Sea and those bordering the Black Sea had been informed not to send their warships to pass through the Turkish straits.

Turkey had received a request from Ukraine to close the Turkish Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, to ban the passage of Russian warships into the Black Sea.

These developments brought to the fore the agreement regulating maritime traffic through the straits, which was held in the city of Montreux in 1936. The agreement gives Turkey control over the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits and regulates the transit of various types of ships.


This agreement guarantees the free passage of civilian ships in peacetime, restricts the passage of ships that do not belong to the Black Sea countries, and allows Turkey to close transit to all foreign warships in time of war or when they are under threat of aggression.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that Canada would provide Ukraine with anti-tank weapons and advanced ammunition to support its resistance to the Russian military, and that it would ban imports of crude oil from Russia.

"Canada will continue to support Ukraine's heroic defense against the Russian army," Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa. "We announce our intent to ban all imports of crude oil from Russia, a sector that greatly benefits President Putin and members of his government."