War in Ukraine: Russian troops encircle several cities - This happened on Friday night

Created: 03/11/2022, 06:24

By: Jennifer Lanzinger

The Pentagon suspects that several cities will be surrounded by Russian troops in the Ukraine war.

Meanwhile, former Chancellor Schröder is traveling to Moscow.

The events of the night.

Kyiv – The Ukraine war* keeps the world in suspense, even two weeks after the attack by Russian troops, there is fighting in many places in Ukraine for cities.

While former Chancellor Schröder is traveling to Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin*, Russian troops are trying to encircle important cities in Ukraine.

That happened on the night of Friday, March 11, 2022.

War in Ukraine: Russian troops encircle several cities - This happened on Friday night

The Russian troops are trying to encircle important cities in their war of aggression in Ukraine.

But they continue to make it difficult for them, the Ukrainian army says it can slow down the advance.

The Ukrainian army has held back attacks by Russian units in several places.

In the north of the country, Russian troops were stopped from advancing into the city of Chernihiv, according to a report by the Ukrainian general staff published on Facebook on Friday night.

At Kharkiv in the east of the country, Russia is continuing its attempts to blockade the city from the north - these are still unsuccessful.

The information cannot be independently verified.

If the Pentagon has its way, the Russian military should try to surround Ukrainian cities in a targeted manner.

The troops also have this plan for the capital Kyiv.

"Kharkiv and Chernihiv, Mariupol - we see these efforts to encircle and surround," said a senior US defense official.

This is also observed around the capital.

According to the official, the Russian soldiers came from several directions.

"So what we see are these different lines of advance towards Kyiv." The city is much larger than the other cities and is heavily defended.

War in Ukraine: More than 100,000 people evacuated - escape corridor apparently shot at again

On site, the situation for the residents is catastrophic, especially in the contested cities.

Almost 100,000 people have been evacuated from embattled cities in Ukraine in the past two days.

This was announced by the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj* in a video speech.

However, the port city of Mariupol and nearby Volnowacha would continue to be blocked.

Zelenskyy accused Russia of shelling the escape corridor and a meeting point for people fleeing Mariupol on Thursday.

According to UN estimates, around 2.3 million people have left Ukraine so far.

You can read more about the current negotiations in our news ticker.

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War in Ukraine: Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder travels to Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin

Meanwhile, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder traveled to Moscow on Thursday to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the Ukraine war.

Corresponding reports from the website

and the

were confirmed by the German Press Agency.

According to dpa information, a first meeting between Schröder and Putin took place on Thursday.

It was initially unclear whether more were planned.

The federal government had previously announced that the trip had not been agreed with her.

According to Russia's wishes, the UN Security Council is to deal with biological weapons allegedly manufactured by the USA in Ukraine on Friday.

The background to this is Russia's accusation that the United States and Ukraine are developing biological weapons.

This week, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed there was a network of bio-laboratories in Ukraine working for the US Defense Department.

International fact-checkers have long since invalidated this claim.

The US sees the Russian claims as "propaganda" and a possible pretext for using weapons of mass destruction in the Ukraine war.

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