Today's D Brief: Russian strikes hit Kyiv, Kharkiv; 40-mile convoy coming; EU nixes jet plans; 660,000 refugees so far; And a bit more.
BEN WATSON, JENNIFER HLAD and BRADLEY PENISTON | MARCH 1, 2022 11:09 AM ET
THE D BRIEF
Day six of Russia’s Ukraine invasion: “Undisguised terror.” That’s how Ukraine’s embattled president described Russian military actions nearly a week into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, an invasion that’s increasingly targeting the eastern city of Kharkiv and the northern capital city of Kyiv with intense air and artillery strikes.
Russia appears to have launched a rocket at Kharkiv’s central square and administrative building at around 8 a.m. local time. Cars were queued for a traffic light beside the building when the rocket exploded, sending a massive fireball into the air and obliterating many nearby large objects, including several automobiles. The Kharkiv strike was captured on closed circuit television, and you can observe the incident in video, here.
Said President Volodymir Zelenskyy this morning: “The rocket aimed at the central square of Kharkiv is an outright, undisguised terror. After that, Russia is a terrorist state. No one will forgive. No one will forget.”
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2022/03/the-d-brief-march-01-2022/362584/
