The Ukrainian army released a video that it says shows Ukrainian soldiers holding positions on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv.
READ MORE: Washington condemned reports that a Russian airstrike had destroyed a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Wednesday, as U.S. officials struck down a Polish proposal to transfer Russian-made jets to a U.S. air base and then on to Ukraine.
"Sovereign nations can decide for themselves what they want to do," Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said. "But this idea, the proposal of transferring these jets to our custody for then transferring to Ukraine, that is something that we are not going to explore right now."
A U.S. intelligence assessment said such a transfer would be considered "high risk," Kirby said, and could be seen as an escalation by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched the invasion of neighboring Ukraine two weeks ago.
Russia criticized Poland's offer to send the jets to a U.S. air base in Germany, with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday calling it a "potentially dangerous scenario."
At the White House, press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday: "I think it's pretty clear, doesn't require a military expert, to understand why having planes fly from a U.S. air base into a contested part of the country where there is a war is not in our interest and not in NATO interests."
The hospital attack led Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to again call on NATO to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine, declaring, "You have power but you seem to be losing humanity."
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