At dawn a lull set in in the capital of Ukraine Kyiv, after intensive fighting during the night in the city streets and around government buildings.

A residential building has been hit, the fighting breaking out hours after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky warned there will be a Russian attack. Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, told a Ukrainian news website that the Ukrainian army was in control of the situation in Kyiv. 

Dozens of people were wounded in overnight fighting in Kyiv, city mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Saturday morning, Reuters reports. Klitschko added there was currently no major Russian military presence in Kyiv, although he said saboteur groups were active.

Air raid sirens sounded early this morning in Lviv in Western Ukraine, and in one more town in Lviv region. A little before that air raid sirens were heard in Kharkiv as well. At the moment the energy system in Ukraine is stable. According to information coming from Interfax, Russian forces have captured Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia region in Southeastern Ukraine. With coordinated missile and artillery action, the Russian army bombarded Ukrainian towns, including the capital Kyiv. The Ukrainian military command announced that Russia had fired Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea at the towns of Sumy, Poltava and Mariupol. There is fighting at Mariupol, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odessa.

This morning Ukrainian President Zelenski released one more video, addressing all Ukrainians, in which he denied information alleging he had called on the Ukrainian army to put down their weapons. He also denied the allegations that he was going to flee the country. “I’m here. We are not going to put down our arms. We will defend our country,” he said. “This is our land. This is our country. These are our children. And we will defend all of this,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.