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Ukraine: Russia shot prisoners of war
10:33 p.m.: Ukraine accuses Russia of shooting unarmed Ukrainian soldiers. “An investigation has been launched into the shootings of unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war in Avdiivka and Vesele,” the Donetsk region prosecutor’s office said on its Telegram channel.
A video recorded by a drone shows a Russian soldier shooting two captured Ukrainian soldiers at close range in the village of Vesele. No comment was initially available from the Russian Defense Ministry. The Suspilne channel quotes a Ukrainian military spokesman as saying that it is not the first time that Russia has committed war crimes.
Russia’s former president threatens the West with nuclear war
8:22 p.m.: Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is threatening the West with nuclear war and calling the countries “idiots.” The current deputy chairman of the Security Council reiterated in a Telegram post on Sunday his well-known position that “nuclear powers never lose a war” as long as they defend their homeland. Here you can read more about it.
Fighting in Ukraine continues – “Operational situation difficult”
8:09 p.m.: Ukraine’s troops continue to come under pressure from attacking Russian units. “The operational situation in eastern and southern Ukraine remains difficult,” writes the General Staff in Kiev on its Facebook page. A total of 56 battles were registered on various sectors of the front. During the course of the Russian attacks, residential areas also came under artillery and rocket fire. There were deaths and injuries among the civilian population. The information could not immediately be independently verified.
There was particularly heavy fighting south of Zaporizhia in the central sector of the front. There, seven Russian attacks supported by fighter jets were repelled.
Video | That is why the withdrawal from Avdiivka was necessary
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Putin sees war in Ukraine as a “matter of life or death”
5:17 p.m.: According to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, Russia considers the situation around Ukraine to be “vital.” For the West, however, it is just a question of tactics, says Putin in an interview on state television, from which the state agency Tass quotes. While the West is taking tactical positions around Ukraine, for his country it is “a matter of fate, a question of life or death.” If the West didn’t get involved, “the war would have ended a year and a half ago.”
“We moved from initially peaceful measures to military instruments and tried to end this conflict peacefully,” Putin claims. And: Russia is still ready to negotiate a peace solution.
The positions of Moscow and Kiev on a possible peace solution differ widely. While Kiev insists on the return of all occupied territories, including the Crimean peninsula, Russia wants to keep the conquered territories that it has already integrated into its national territory.
Russia: Taken full control of Avdiivka
12.40 p.m.: Russia says it has taken full control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka. The troops have advanced around nine kilometers on the front there, report Russian news agencies, citing the Defense Ministry in Moscow. The Russian leadership had previously stated that after the Ukrainian withdrawal from the city, which had been heavily fought over for months, on Saturday some Ukrainian soldiers were holed up in a Soviet-era coking plant.
Ukraine reports shooting down of Russian fighter jet
9.12 a.m.: Ukraine says it shot down another Russian fighter jet last night. It was an SU-34 fighter-bomber, said Ukrainian Air Force Chief Mykola Oleshchuk on the Telegram short message service.
