Ukrainian military vehicles enter Kiev to defend the city.

Ukrainian military vehicles are entering Kiev to protect it from approaching Russian troops, says Ukraine's Interior Ministry.

The mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, said earlier that the city had "entered a defensive phase", reports the

BBC

.

The government is urging the people of Kiev to do everything they can to resist Russian troops, including producing Molotov cocktails and taking up arms.

More than 18,000 reservists have been deployed to the region in the Ukrainian capital today.

Otherwise, the Ukrainian authorities have claimed that so far over a thousand Russian soldiers and their personnel have been killed during the military aggression in Ukraine.

/ Telegraphy /