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It's been one week since Russia invaded Ukraine and attacks are intensifying on key cities. More than one million people have already fled the country and hundreds of civilians are believed to have been killed. Kyiv remains in government control and a large Russian armoured convoy remains some distance away.

Freelance journalist, Evgen Solonyna, speaks from a town close to the airport outside Kyiv. He says that as he speaks, he is about 10 kilometres from the Russian convoy, and that there is an eerie silence, possibly due to Ukrainian troops tampering with communications equipment and the fact that they have also destroyed the bridges into Kyiv. He says that in the past week, he has seen men leaving their partners and children at the borders in the west of the country, and then driving back east, as Ukrainians set their minds on how to "live, survive and fight".

Photo: A worker from a local construction company prepares an anti-tank obstacle to be place on road around Kyiv Credit: Reuters