By NSHIMIYIMANA Pierre Celestin

After their wedding day, with commitment they immediately took guns AK-47 rifles join the war to fight against President Putin’s invasion.

Viatoslav Fursin and Yaryna Arieva were supposed to be married in May, but they chose to live together when Russia started a war in their country.

Sviatoslav Fursin, 24, and his wife, Yaryna Arieva, 21, are among Ukrainians who have surrendered their weapons to fight Russia when they vowed to stick to each other

Russian forces close in on Ukraine's capital as death toll mounts

Satellite images showed a 40-mile-long Russian military convoy approaching Ukraine's capital of Kyiv on Tuesday as authorities said Russian forces carried out a deadly attack on the city's main TV tower. The plodding Russian advance on the ground came while Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, was hit by intense shelling as Vladimir Putin's invasion of the neighboring nation entered its sixth day. The U.N. human rights office said Tuesday that at least 136 civilians had been killed by Russia's assault, including 13 children.

Talks between Ukrainian and Russian representatives lasted several hours Monday and both sides agreed to meet again in the coming days. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address late Monday that he believed Russia's continued shelling was meant to extract concessions from his country, but it wouldn't work.

More and more countries and companies worldwide taking steps to punish Moscow for the invasion. They left Russia's currency, the ruble, plunging to a value of less than a penny.

On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, its neighbour to the southwest, marking a dramatic escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014.

Throughout 2021 and 2022, Russian military buildup on the border of Ukraine has escalated tensions between the two countries and strained bilateral relations, with the United States sending a strong message that invasion would be met with dire consequences for Russia's economy.