Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleRussian president Vladimir Putin has reportedly ordered his military to plan new offensive operations aimed at capturing Kyiv, according to Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. Syrskyi indicated potential scenarios include offensives launched from Belarusian territory towards the Ukrainian capital. He added that a strike from Russia's Bryansk region towards Ukraine’s Chernihiv region is considered the most probable scenario. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Ukraine struck a satellite centre in the Moscow region for the second time. The Dubna space communications centre, located approximately 500km from the Ukrainian border, is used for intelligence gathering and coordinating Russian forces in Ukraine. In fullUkraine-Russia war latest: Putin orders army to plan new ways to capture Kyiv, says Ukrainian military chiefThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
What we know about Putin’s new plan to capture Kyiv
Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleRussian president Vladimir Putin has reportedly ordered his military to plan new offensive operations aimed at capturing Kyiv, according to Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. Syrskyi indicated potential scenarios include offensives launched from Belarusian territory towards the Ukrainian capital. He added that a strike from Russia's Bryansk region towards Ukraine’s Chernihiv region is considered the most probable scenario. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Ukraine struck a satellite centre in the Moscow region for the second time. The Dubna space communications centre, located approximately 500km from the Ukrainian border, is used for intelligence gathering and coordinating Russian forces in Ukraine. In fullUkraine-Russia war latest: Putin orders army to plan new ways to capture Kyiv, says Ukrainian military chiefThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
