Photos appear to show breakup of 40-mile Russian convoy outside Ukrainian capital

A Ukrainian serviceman takes a photograph of a damaged church after shelling in a residential district in Mariupol (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

New satellite photos appeared to show that a massive convoy outside the Ukrainian capital has split up and fanned out into towns and forests near Kyiv, with artillery pieces raised into firing position in a potentially ominous movement of the Russian military.

The photos emerged amid more international efforts to isolate and sanction Russia, particularly after a deadly airstrike on a maternity hospital in the port city of Mariupol that Western and Ukrainian officials decried as a war crime.