bags picked their way around the burnt husk and scattered detritus of a ripped-apart armored personnel carrier. Its occupants weren’t far away — not far from the mall’s service entrance, the bodies of two Russian soldiers lay side by side near a piece of fallen, crumpled yellow cladding.Two more had been tossed onto the train tracks on the opposite side of the street; they lay in the mud, spread-eagled at right angles near a streak of red and some discarded bullets.
The Ukrainian soldiers on this end of the bridge, which remained in
government hands as of Tuesday afternoon, had fortified their position
ahead of what is reported to be a 40-mile-long column of Russian
armored vehicles stretching to Antonov Airport, a scant four miles
away. Yet the small arsenal that the Ukrainians had — a couple of
armored personnel carriers, a double-cannoned antiaircraft gun and a
bulldozer — underscored the imbalance of the forces fighting for Kyiv.
So far, though, the Russians’ advance had been limited, the soldiers said." yahoo
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