The US and EU responded with weapons and ammunition for the outnumbered Ukrainians and powerful sanctions intended to further isolate Moscow. Huge explosions lit up the sky early Sunday south of the capital, Kyiv, where people hunkered down in homes, underground garages and subway stations in anticipation of a full-scale assault by Russian forces. Flames billowed into the air before dawn from an oil depot near the Zhuliany airport, about 25 miles south of the capital, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office and the mayor of the nearby town of Vasylkiv. In other news * Despite warnings last night that Kyiv would come under attack from Russian missiles, an aerial blitz does not seem to have happened.. Explosions were however heard near the city and an oil depot in Vasylkiv to the south of the capital was hit and set ablaze, according to the local mayor. The fire prompted fears of toxic fumes and residents were warned to close their windows and stay indoors * The southern city of Nova Kakhovka has been taken over by Russian troops, the city’s mayor said this morning * Meanwhile, Russian vehicles have entered Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, say, Ukrainian officials. * A loud explosion was also heard earlier in the city, where a gas pipeline is said to have been hit Residential areas in Kharkiv were also attacked, according to emergency services. A woman was reportedly killed and dozens were evacuated from a nine-story building * At least six civilian deaths were also reported in the town of Okhtyrka, north-eastern Ukraine, according to the region’s mayor * In the last hour the BBC’s Ukrainian Service reported new accounts of blasts in Kharkiv and Kherson in the south-east * In a move to punish Russia, the EU, US and their allies will be cutting off a number of Russian banks from the main international payment system, Swift. They will also freeze Russia’s central bank’s assets * Australia became the latest country to announce it will fund the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine to help it fight Russia. The move comes after Germany decided on Saturday to supply weapons to Ukraine, representing a major policy shift.