According to CNN this evening, Ukrainian authorities are confirming the city has fallen. Population 300,000 in the south of the country...not far from Crimea. It's not the main prize of Kyiv but a pretty major development from a psychological standpoint if nothing else.
Not far from there, Russian forces appear to be making progress in their attempt to establish a land bridge around the Azov Sea port of Mariupol between Crimea and the Donbass. The map presented in the linked CNN piece shows the swaths of Ukrainian territory now apparently controlled by the Russian military:
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Not far from there, Russian forces appear to be making progress in their attempt to establish a land bridge around the Azov Sea port of Mariupol between Crimea and the Donbass. The map presented in the linked CNN piece shows the swaths of Ukrainian territory now apparently controlled by the Russian military:
The shifting map of Ukraine makes Russia's intentions clearer | CNN
Switch on Russian state television, and the spectacle of war in Ukraine is rather bloodless. But within the country under invasion, the picture of Russia's military intentions is becoming clearer.
