WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) – According to the US government, the Russian military is making only slow progress in its advance on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. In places, the soldiers are about 15 kilometers away from the city center, a senior US defense official said on Monday. A kilometer-long Russian military convoy that had come to a standstill was also not really making any headway. The northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv is essentially isolated. But according to the Pentagon, the Russian military has made little progress there either, because the resistance of the Ukrainians is very strong.
According to the Pentagon, the recent Russian attack on the Yavoriv military training ground, about 15 kilometers from the Polish border, has had no impact on supplies from the West to the Ukrainian army. It would be wrong to assume that the Russians hit some sort of security support hub there, the official said. Since the beginning of the war, the Russian military has shot down more than 900 rockets. The official also stressed that Ukrainian airspace remained contested. Despite their equipment, the Russians were not in control of the airspace./nau/DP/nas