Over 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after Russian artillery hit a military base in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, the head of the region wrote on Telegram.
Dmytro Zhyvytskyy posted photographs of the charred shell of a four-story building and rescuers searching rubble.
Earlier in the day, a Russian military convoy threatening Kyiv is far bigger than initially thought, with satellite images from Monday showing it occupying much of a 40-mile (64-kilometer) stretch of road north of the Ukrainian capital.
The vast convoy of armored vehicles, tanks, artillery and support vehicles was 17 miles (25 kilometers) from the center of Kyiv and stretched for about 40 miles, according to satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies.
The Maxar photos also showed deployments of ground forces and ground attack helicopter units in southern Belarus. Ukrainians have been valiantly fighting every inch of ground since the start of the Russian invasion last Thursday but Vladimir Putin is throwing much more armoury and troops into the battle.
The Russian military assault on Ukraine enters its sixth day on Tuesday. Kyiv and other cities have been under siege with shelling and street battles but Russia has been struggling to make significant breakthroughs.
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