Ukraine says Russian jet shot down over capital as UK says it is likely that Russia has failed to achieve all its initial objectives
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has vowed to stay in Kyiv, hours before large explosions were heard in the capital, and after a warning from US secretary of state Antony Blinken that “all evidence suggests that Russia intends to encircle and threaten” the city.
Ukrainian troops were battling Russian forces advancing toward Kyiv as part of the biggest invasion of a European state since the second world war. “We believe Moscow has developed plans to inflict widespread human rights abuses – and potentially worse – on the Ukrainian people,” Blinken told a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Thursday.
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