Ukrainian civilians in the city of Bakhmach faced advancing Russian tanks on Saturday, according to video verified by CNN.
According to CNN, “[i]The video shows tanks driving on roads in Bakhmach, just over 110 miles northeast of the Ukrainian capital Kiev.”
The video shows a man climbing on a Russian tank as it travels down a city street. The tank stops and the man climbs down and kneels in front of it for a moment before getting up and moving to the side.
According to CNN’s translation, a voice can be heard saying, “They’re throwing their bicycles under the Russian tanks,” although no one does in the video. The voice also describes people “throwing themselves under the wheels”. At the end of the video you see someone climbing back on the tank.
The Ukrainian government has encouraged citizens to help defend their country by handing out guns and encouraging citizens to make Molotov cocktails. The Russian Defense Ministry has condemned these actions, arguing that arming untrained civilians “will inevitably lead to accidents and casualties,” according to CNN.
The US Department of Defense believes that 50 percent of the roughly 200,000 troops that Russia mustered at the border with Ukraine in the months leading up to the invasion are now fighting in Ukraine. USA today reported Saturday afternoon.
According to USA todayRussian reconnaissance troops have entered Kiev and engaged in street battles with Ukrainian troops, but the main force moving from Belarus to the capital is still about 29 miles away.
Bakhmach is about 150 miles (150 miles) from Kiev and is halfway between the capital and the northeastern city of Kharkiv, which, according to CNBC, has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the war to date.
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