Russian troops tighten net around Kyiv as Ukraine fighting rages
KHARKIV, Ukraine — As Russian troops closed in on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Friday in Europe’s largest ground conflict since World War II, leaders of the besieged nation urged their citizens to fight back.
“Make Molotov cocktails, neutralize the occupier!” the Ukrainian Border Guard implored in a Facebook post, warning that Russian troops had advanced on the suburbs of Kyiv.
As military…