Fierce fighting and a sharply growing death toll signal an increasingly bloody conflict in Ukraine, with Russian troops continuing to storm cities while building up a massive force of tanks and artillery in preparation to lay siege to Kyiv.
A week into the war, Ukraine claimed that more than 2,000 of its civilians had been killed during the first week of the Russian invasion, while Moscow announced that it had so far lost 498 soldiers in the war – the first time it has given a figure.
