UKRAINE’S President has warned that tonight will be the “hardest night” for his country so far since the start of the conflict, in a chilling address to his nation.
Speaking from his bunker in besieged Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned: “The fate of Ukraine is being decided right now,” as he said the “enemy” would “go all in” tonight.
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“This night will be the hardest. The enemy will go all in. We must withstand. The night will be very hard, but sunset will come,” he said in a somber TV address.
He added: “This night will be harder than the day. Many cities of our state are under attack: Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, our boys and girls in the Donbas, the cities of the south, special attention to Kyiv.”
President Zelenskyy said starkly: “We can’t lose the capital.”
A defiant Zelenskyy said he was top of tyrant Vladimir Putin’s hitlist as he warned that Ukraine’s outgunned warriors faced a long and hard night.
But he warned bully Putin that Friday night would prove to be “very difficult” as Russia looks to use all available forces to break Ukraine’s resistance.
He told his nation in a stirring battle address: “We have to persevere tonight.”
It follows a similar warning from Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko that Friday night would be “very difficult” for the city of almost 3 million people.
“The situation now – without exaggeration – is threatening for Kyiv,” he said. “The night, close to the morning, will be very difficult.”
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Just before 12.30am Ukrainian time (10.30pm GMT), there were reports of gunfire in Kyiv.
Ukraine’s Defence Ministry has urged people in Kyiv to make their own petrol bombs to repel the Russian invaders.
More than 10,000 assault rifles have been handed out to ordinary citizens in the city as part of a last-ditch defence of the capital.
Earlier on Friday, Russia was accused of bombing a nursery after pictures emerged showing the school in the eastern Ukrainian city of Okhtyrka “surrounded by bodies”.
Bodies of at least two adults were seen lying outside the “Sunshine” nursery in pools of blood as people crouched alongside them.
The front of the building – which has a sandpit, play area, and slide – appears blown out with its shutters scattered on the ground.
Kyiv’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba accused Russia of war crimes and said his government was putting together a report which it would send to the Hague.
In another disturbing video, a Russian tank was filmed driving over a moving car in Kyiv, completely crushing it.
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It reversed off the vehicle before ordinary people were able to prise the driver out of the flattened car using axes and other tools.
Miraculously, the elderly man behind the wheel survived the shocking incident.
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