Satellite pictures taken by a US firm of a huge Russian military escort close to Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, show it has "generally scattered and redeployed".

Large Russian convoy redeploys near Kyiv - satellite images

The caravan was most recently seen close to Antonov Airport, north-west of Kyiv, and its development could flag a recharged push towards the city.

The firm that took the photographs, Maxar Technologies, said pieces of the escort were in places in encompassing towns.

Different parts are further north, with ordnance now in terminating positions.

The evident redeployment came as Russian powers in Ukraine started assaulting new focuses in various region of the country:

A landing strip and fly motor manufacturing plant were focused on in Lutsk, in the north-west .Blasts additionally hit runways at Ivano-Frankivsk, in the south-west, as indicated by Russian protection authorities.

In Dnipro, a significant fortress in focal eastern Ukraine, one individual was accounted for dead in air strikes.

Place of refuge no more Sarah Rainsford, Eastern Europe journalist, Dnipro.

The air attack alarms sounded at 04:30 and cried for over three hours. We presently realize the risk was genuine.

Authorities here say there were three air strikes, hitting a little shoe processing plant, a condo block and a kindergarten.

This city is loaded with weighty industry, including a rocket processing plant. There is a metalworks close by the site that was hit, yet no conspicuous military objective.

Dnipro has been preparing for this since the conflict started. Every one of the extensions and primary streets here are intensely watched. Inhabitants have used to scrambling to underground asylums when the alarms sound.

All things being equal, the city has been something of a place of refuge, for individuals escaping urban areas under supported Russian assault. In the beyond couple of days, occupants here had started leaving: we saw monster lines for clearing trains and the streets west away have been intensely blocked. Presently the city has been straightforwardly hit, I speculate more will consider getting out.

"Ukrainian enormous urban areas are again exposed to wrecking blows," said Ukrainian official counsel Mykhaylo Podolyak.

He added that the shelling in Lutsk had closed down two focal warming mixtures.

"Russia's damaging conflict against regular people and significant urban areas proceeds," he said.

Russian state media detailed that the Ukrainian city of Volnovakha had been caught by Russian-upheld dissident powers.

There is no autonomous affirmation of the catch of the city, which is a northern door to the attacked port city of Mariupol.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Russian cases that synthetic weapons or weapons of mass annihilation were created in Ukraine. In a video address, he additionally cautioned that Russia would get "the most extreme authorizations reaction" if it somehow happened to utilize such weapons against Ukraine.

The US said before that Russia's cases of Ukraine facilitating US-supported substance weapons offices was a "bogus banner", planned to legitimize Russia's conceivable utilization of such weapons.

Russia has mentioned a crisis meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday to examine the supposed assembling of natural weapons in Ukraine.

Caravan redeploys around Kyiv.

Russian powers moved three miles (5km) nearer to Kyiv in the beyond 24 hours, a senior US safeguard official said on Thursday.

That implied Russian soldiers progressing from the north-west were presently only nine miles from the downtown area, the authority - who talked on state of obscurity - told correspondents.

Russian powers were additionally attempting to surround the city from the north-east, and were currently around 25 miles (40km) away, the authority said.

The northern city of Chernihiv was currently "secluded" the authority added.

The guard was before seen slowed down not a long way from the capital, where US authorities said it was focused on by Ukrainian soldiers with hostile to tank rockets. It isn't clear the number of the vehicles at present seen progressing may have been an underlying piece of that first group.Fierce fights have been seething in quite a while in Irpin and Bucha, outer municipalities only a couple of kilometers north-west of Kyiv. Great many regular citizens have been compelled to escape their homes.

On Thursday, film arose obviously showing a Russian military section being hit by Ukrainian powers close to the city of Brovary, right external the capital.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko says that a large portion of the number of inhabitants in the city of around 3,000,000 has effectively escaped, adding that Kyiv "has been changed into a post".

"Each road, each structure, each designated spot has been sustained," the city chairman said.

A huge number of regular people have framed Territorial Defense units to assist the Ukrainian military with protecting the capital.