The battle for Kiev is looming.

Satellite photos, taken on Tuesday night, show a Russian convoy stretching about 60 kilometers and making slow progress towards the Ukrainian capital.

Ukraine's army general staff says Russian forces have regrouped over the past 24 hours, gathering armored vehicles and artillery weapons "primarily to encircle and take control of Kiev and other major cities of Ukraine”.

"Some vehicles are sometimes very distant from each other and, on other portions, the military equipment is positioned two or three abreast", indicates the American satellite imagery company Maxar, after the dissemination of several photos taken from space.

The convoy "stretched from the area around Antonov airport (about 25 km from the center of Kiev) in the south to around Prybirsk" in the north.

This airport has been the scene of violent clashes since the beginning of the war, with the Russian army trying to seize this strategic infrastructure for the capture of the capital.

Zelensky's New Call

According to two sources interviewed on Monday, one diplomatic and the other security, Moscow is preparing to launch a new military push imminently.

The main Russian column advancing towards Kiev "advanced about five kilometers" on Monday, a senior US defense official said, locating it 25 km from Kiev.

Defenders of the capital, under curfew all weekend, erected makeshift barricades and reprogrammed public electronic signs to warn Russians that they would be greeted "by bullets".

Faced with the omen of major battles for control of Kiev, President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the international community to “consider a total closure of the sky for Russian missiles, planes and helicopters”.

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