Au onzième jour de leur invasion, les forces russes ont détruit dimanche un aéroport dans le centre de l'Ukraine et poursuivaient leur siège de Marioupol, le grand port du sud-est.
Les lignes de front ont apparemment peu évolué au cours des dernières 24 heures, la capitale Kyiv restant sous contrôle ukrainien, tout comme Kharkiv (nord-est), malgré d'intenses bombardements russes.
Voici un point de la situation établi à partir d'éléments des journalistes de l'AFP sur place et de services d'urgence ainsi que de déclarations officielles ukrainiennes et russes, de sources occidentales, d'analystes et d'organisations internationales. Moscou pour sa part communique très peu sur son offensive.
L'Est
Kharkiv, la deuxième ville d'Ukraine (1,4 million d'habitants), à 50 km de la frontière russe, était toujours dimanche aux mains des troupes ukrainiennes malgré d'intenses bombardements, selon des observateurs occidentaux.
Les forces russes mènent aussi une offensive à partir des territoires séparatistes prorusses de Donetsk et de Lougansk (est), mais l'ampleur de leur avancée restait inconnue.
Les combats ont été intenses autour et à l'intérieur de la ville de Sumy (nord-est), où le gouvernement ukrainien fait état d'un pilonnage russe et de tentatives d'évacuation d'étudiants étrangers.
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Kyiv et le Nord
Kyiv reste sous contrôle ukrainien, malgré d'importants bombardements. Des observateurs occidentaux ont relevé la présence d'une colonne de centaines de véhicules russes au nord de la capitale, près de l'aéroport de Gostomel.
D'intenses affrontements ont eu lieu dans les environs de Gostomel, mais la colonne n'a que peu progressé ces derniers jours.
L'Ukraine garde également le contrôle de Tcherniguiv, au nord de Kyiv, dont le centre-ville a été dévasté par des pilonnages russes vendredi. De nombreux civils y sont morts ces derniers jours.
Les Russes assiègent la ville portuaire de Marioupol, qui résiste toujours. Une deuxième tentative d'évacuation de quelque 200 000 civils a été "interrompue", a annoncé dimanche le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR). Les deux camps se rejettent mutuellement la responsabilité de ces échecs.
La prise de cette cité d'importance stratégique permettrait à la Russie d'effectuer la jonction entre ses forces en provenance de la Crimée annexée, qui ont déjà conquis les villes clés de Berdiansk et de Kherson et menacent désormais Mykolaïv, plus à l'ouest, et les troupes séparatistes et russes dans le Donbass (est).
Odessa, où se trouve le principal port d'Ukraine -sur la mer Noire-, encore aux mains des Ukrainiens, n'a pour l'instant pas été touchée. Mais le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky a accusé dimanche la Russie de se préparer à bombarder la ville.
L'ouest de l'Ukraine est pour l'instant largement épargné par les combats. Sa plus grande cité, Lviv, est devenue une plaque tournante pour les missions diplomatiques, les journalistes et les Ukrainiens cherchant à se mettre en sécurité ou à fuir dans un pays voisin.
M. Zelensky a affirmé dimanche que des frappes russes avaient détruit l'aéroport de la ville de Vinnytsia, à quelque 200 kilomètres au sud-ouest de Kyiv, bien au-delà de l'avant-garde des forces d'invasion.
Victimes
La Russie a annoncé mercredi que 498 de ses militaires avaient été tués en Ukraine, selon le premier bilan annoncé de ses pertes dans cette guerre, qui n'a pas été actualisé depuis.
L'Ukraine et des observateurs occidentaux assurent de leur côté que le bilan est très nettement supérieur. Kyiv affirme que plus de 11 000 soldats russes ont péri.
L'ONU a déclaré vendredi avoir comptabilisé 331 civils tués en Ukraine, dont 15 enfants, un bilan potentiellement largement sous-évalué.
Plus d'un million et demi de personnes ont déjà fui l'Ukraine depuis le début de l'invasion de ce pays le 24 février, dont plus de la moitié ont été accueillies en Pologne, selon le dernier comptage du Haut commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés (HCR).