Empty shelves, spy hunt: Kyiv residents brace for Russian assault | Russia-Ukraine crisis News

Residents and servicemen alike hunt for Russian spies in Kyiv and supermarkets struggle with logistics as a long Russian military convoy advances slowly towards the city.

The seventh day of Russia’s war on Ukraine began with the sounds of sirens warning of air raids again on Wednesday morning while a number of explosions and shelling incidents were heard overnight.

Maidan Nezalezhnosti, the iconic Independence Square in Kyiv, has been surrounded by barricades with sandbags and anti-tank Czech hedgehogs, as a 64km (40-mile) convoy of Russian tanks and other vehicles advances slowly towards the city.

Spanish ham, French cheese, Swiss chocolate and mangoes delivered straight from Thailand last week, just before the war, are left on the shelves of Silpo, a supermarket chain, in the Pecherskyi district in the city of nearly three million people.

All of the cheaper foods are gone. There…