The Ukrainian military continues defending Kyiv and Chernihiv. In the Chernihiv region, the Russian invaders are hiding military equipment behind apartment blocks. Russian troops disguised in civilian clothes are advancing on Mykolayiv from the Kherson region.
Russian troops will try to continue to surround Kyiv, they are preparing to attack Sumy, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, and want to establish control over Chernihiv city and Kaniv Hydroelectric Power Plant.
The Russian military has amassed a large number of troops in villages and towns near Kyiv, and in the coming days is likely to attempt to occupy the Ukrainian capital.
On the evening of 4 March, a Russian missile was shot down over the Okhmatdet hospital in Kyiv, and doctors continue to evacuate children; two seriously injured children in the Kyiv region died because they could not get help.
On the ninth day of the Russian invasion, Russia's primary efforts are focused on surrounding Kyiv and weakening resistance in the areas they have blockaded.