Satellite images have shown Russian military units continuing to deploy closer to Ukraine's capital Kyiv and firing artillery toward residential areas, a US private company has said.
Maxar Technologies said multiple homes and buildings were on fire and widespread damage and impact craters could be seen throughout the town of Moschun, north-west of Kyiv. The images could not be independently verified.
Maxar said one image showed elements of a Russian artillery battalion actively firing in a south-easterly direction, a bright muzzle flash coming from one of the guns.
Smoke rising from five other guns suggested they had also just been fired.
It said it could not confirm the battalion's targets, but the damage observed in Moschun was about seven kilometres south-east of the artillery deployment.
Another image showed long lines of cars carrying people trying to flee Kyiv.
At Antonov Airport, damage could be seen to buildings and fuel storage tanks as some continued to burn.
Russian forces bombarded cities across the country on Friday and appeared to be regrouping for a possible assault on Kyiv as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country had reached a "strategic turning point" in the conflict.
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