Ukraine’s military has just released its latest “operational information” effective at 24:00 local time (22:00 GMT) 8 March, giving its summary of Day 13 of the Russian invasion.
In the past 24 hours, “the enemy slowed the pace of its offensive operation, resorting primarily to missile and bomb strikes on civilian infrastructure”, the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said in a statement.
It said Russia was continuing to focus on encircling and seizing the cities of Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Mykolayiv and Chernihiv, and also on creating a land corridor between Russia and the annexed Crimea Peninsula.
It said the Russian army continued to suffer significant losses and was also trying to boost fuel supplies by setting up a “network of field pipelines”.
The accuracy of the report has not been independently verified by the BBC.
