The war between Russia and Ukraine continues as invasion enters its 12th day.
The Russian military try to block the city from north and the northwest.
The road that connects Kyiv in Lviv, the E40 highway, was partially occupied by the Russians.
The Russian military at also entered Irpin, which is 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) from the north of the capital city Kyiv. There are preparations underway made on all corner of the city.
Ukrainian military and the police thoroughly search every vehicle this passes across the points control in the city. In addition to concrete barriers, anti-tank obstacles made of will do it also been installed on the citythe roads.
The residents receive on streets to dig ditches and build trenches against the Russian invaders.
A Kyiv district with a focus of Azerbaijani citizens are also where the Ukrainian and Azerbaijani flags fly side by side.
Amil Yusuflu, who organized the resistance in the neighborhood, lived in Ukraine for 25 years.
Say they will resist the Russians military together he added preparations continue.
“We have no weapons. We decided to dig ditches and build trenches like people in other parts of Kyiv done. We have built trenches in collaboration, we prepared Molotov cocktails. Any of us think from here. We will do it help Ukrainian military as much as we can, until the end,” he said.
“We will do it support a free Ukraine,” Yusuflu concluded.
Women face of the war
As the invasion go on, hundreds of journalists of all over the world are in Ukraine to cover developments. Emine Kavasoğlu, journalist of A Haber news channel, risked his life to be here during the war.
Kavasoğlu strives to be the voice of Ukrainian women affected by war, as March 8, International Women’s Day, approaches.
Kavasoglu, who rushed to the place people try to escape from to made in the capial Kyiv after work in the Donbass region.
Sleepless nights, overwork and shortages of food is waiting for Kavasoğlu, like all the other journalists covering the invasion.
The journalist who work in Syria and Azerbaijan and many other war-torn regions during the conflict, said she was “not a war correspondent regardless”.
The experienced journalist says that she is not in Ukraine for show but to really reflect the realities on ground.
“I worked as a journalist for 22 years old. I love my work. I worked in many areas in crisis. I am one of two women journalists who came Kyiv from Turkey,” she said.
“I see that the number of women journalists is also low among foreign journalists”, Kavasoğlu added.
“There’s no ‘men’ Where ‘women’ in journalism; there is ‘good journalists’ and ‘bad only for journalists,” she said.
“This year’s International Women’s Day means more volume. I saw the struggle here. women who fight to keep their children away from war, to save their country”, Kavasoğlu added.
“I fight for this fact more visible and to show how terrifying war really is.
