Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymr Zelenskyy, are putting up "stiff resistance," according to U.S. officials.
The attack began Feb. 24 as Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation."
Russians moving from Belarus towards Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, don't appear to have advanced closer towards the city since coming within about 20 miles, although smaller advanced groups have been fighting gun battles with Ukrainian forces inside the capital since at least Friday.
Russia has been met by sanctions from the U.S., Canada and countries throughout Europe, targeting Russia's economy and Putin himself.
Here's how the news is developing. All times Eastern.
Feb 25, 2022, 11:54 AM EST
Russians planning multiple simultaneous entrance points into Kyiv: Official
Officials are seeing more signs that Russian President Vladimir Putin isn't interested in a diplomatic solution, a senior U.S. official said.
Russian troops are now resupplied and are planning multiple entrance points into Kyiv that will likely be carried out at once, the official said.
Ukrainian soldiers patrol a security checkpoint on Feb. 25, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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-ABC News' Martha Raddatz
Feb 25, 2022, 11:34 AM EST
Chernobyl seeing slightly higher levels of radiation but no threat
After Russian forces seized the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power station, the facilities continue "to operate safely and securely," Ukraine's regulatory agency informed the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. Nuclear watchdog said Friday.
There were slightly higher levels of radiation, but they are still "low and remain within the operational range measured in the Exclusion Zone since it was established, and therefore do not pose any danger to the public," the IAEA said.
One theory why the levels could have ticked up, according to the IAEA, is "heavy military vehicles stirring up soil still contaminated from the 1986 accident."
The Chernobyl power plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, is located about 60 miles north of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The Chernobyl exclusion zone begins almost immediately below Ukraine's border with Belarus.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said Friday that Russian troops took full control of the Chernobyl plant area on Thursday.
-ABC News' Conor Finnegan
Feb 25, 2022, 11:14 AM EST
Russians going ashore in 'amphibious assault'
A senior defense official confirms that there is a Russian "amphibious assault" underway along the Ukrainian coast from the Sea of Azov. The attack is to the west of Mariupol, which is a coastal city in southeastern Ukraine.
"Indications are right now that they are putting potentially thousands of naval infantry ashore there," the official said.
The push toward Kyiv is going slower than the Russians expected as they're meeting more resistance from Ukrainians than they thought, the official said.
Ukrainian soldiers take position under a bridge during crossfire inside Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022.
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“In general the Russians have lost a little bit of their momentum," the official said.
The official pointed out that no population centers have been taken and the Russians do not have air superiority over Ukraine as Ukrainian air defenses are still working.
The official said more than 200 ballistic and cruise missiles have been fired at targets in Ukraine, adding some have "impacted civilian residential areas."
A view of a damaged residential building at Koshytsa Street, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early on Feb. 25, 2022, as invading Russian forces pressed deep into Ukraine.
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The U.S. assesses that "a third of the combat power " of the 150,000 Russian troops that were amassed on border are actually dedicated to the fighting in Ukraine, according to the official. “They have not they have not committed the majority of their forces inside Ukraine," the official said.
Fighting is also underway at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant and dam on the Dnieper River that controls a lot of electrical power to Crimea and southern Ukraine, the official said, adding that there have been cyberattacks against power plants.
-ABC News' Matt Seyler, Luis Martinez
Feb 25, 2022, 8:57 AM EST
Russia may be reinforcing, resupplying before moving in on Kyiv
There was an eerie quietness across Kyiv on Friday afternoon, as Russian forces closed in on the Ukrainian capital.
A senior U.S. official told ABC News that he believes the pause around Kyiv was due to the Russian military reinforcing troops and resupplying ammunition and food, and that Russia still wants a stranglehold on the city over the next 24 to 48 hours.
Ukrainian soldiers take position on a bridge inside the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Russia pressed its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital Friday after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops.
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The official also expressed great concern about civilian causalities if Russian forces do move in. While there appeared to be a renewed effort at diplomacy on Friday, the United States believes any noise Russia makes about negotiations is simply stalling, the official said.