Feb 27, 2022: Russia has launched a fresh wave of attacks on Ukraine, targeting fuel installations and airports, the next step in the offensive, which has been slowed down by fierce resistance.

Huge explosions lit up the sky early on Sunday south of the capital, Kyiv, where people hunkered down in homes, underground garages and subway stations and the government maintained a 39-hour curfew in anticipation of an attack by Russian forces.

According to the mayor of the town, flames rose in the sky just before dawn from an oil depot near an airbase in Vasylkiv, near Kyiv, where fierce fighting has taken place. The office of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said another bomb had exploded at a civilian Zhuliany airport.

Zelenskyy’s office also said Russian forces blew up a gas pipeline in Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, prompting the government to warn people to cover their windows with damp cloth or gauze as protection from the smole.

To help Ukraine’s resistance, the United States has pledged an additional 350 million in military aid, including anti-tank weapons, body armor and small arms. Germany has said it will send missiles and anti-tank weapons to the beleagured country and will close its airspace to Russian aircraft.

Meanwhile, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States have agreed to bar “selected” Russian banks from using the SWIFT global financial messaging system, which transfers money between banks and other financial institutions around the world. They also agreed to impose “sanctions” on Russia’s central bank.

Putin sent troops to Ukraine after weeks of denying that he intended to do so, building a force of about 200,000 troops along the borders of all countries. He claims that the West has failed to take seriously Russia’s security concerns about NATO, a Western military alliance that Ukraine wants to join.

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