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Videos posted on social media show street fights raging in a northwestern Kyiv neighborhood between Ukrainian forces and invading Russian forces. The Kremlin’s attackers are advancing quickly in a renewed war that Russian President Vladimir Putin declared unprovoked on Feb. 24.

The official Twitter page of the Defense Ministry announced at 10 a.m. that a Russian subversive group had breached the northern edge of the city in the neighborhood of Obolon on the western bank of the Dnipro River.

“We ask citizens to inform about the movement of equipment! Make Molotov cocktails, neutralize the occupier!” the message said.

Military authorities soon reported that some members of the Russian subversive group had captured two military vehicles and were dressed in Ukrainian military fatigues heading closer to the center of the capital of nearly 3 million people.

The group was shown on a video shared in a Viber group sharing war footage that they had been “liquidated”.

Street fighting videos were also shared in the northern city district and AFP reported that Russian forces had breached the Ukrainian capital in the northeast, following Vladimir Putin’s declaration of war on Feb. 24.

Another social media user on Twitter posted a video of firearms being distributed to civilians from unloaded dump trunks at an industrial zone not far from Pochayna (formerly Petrivka) metro station in Kyiv’s Obolon District.