Russian troops are preparing for a new offensive at the end of May or in the summer, but Kyiv has a “clear” battle plan, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Sunday. The Ukrainian leader announced that 31,000 soldiers have died since February 2022, which is the first official figure in more than a year.

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07:40 Kyiv has opened an investigation into the shooting by Russian troops of seven Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered in the Donetsk region, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine reported on Sunday.

As reported, a video appeared on social media on Saturday showing how Russian soldiers shot dead seven Ukrainian prisoners of war near the villages of Ivanivske and Khromovo near Bakhmut.

“On the footage captured by the drone camera, you can see how the Russian troops first order our defenders to get out of the trenches. After that, having gathered all the defenders in one place and retreated a few meters, the enemy opened fire on them with automatic bursts,” says the message of the Prosecutor General’s Office, quoted by The Kyiv Independent.

Russian troops “deliberately executed wounded and unarmed Ukrainian soldiers, disregarding the norms of international humanitarian law,” the Prosecutor General’s Office reported on the Telegram channel.

06:18On Monday, Hungary will ratify Sweden’s accession to NATO, which would clear the last obstacle to this historic step by the northern country, whose neutrality has crossed two world wars and a bitter Cold War conflict, Reuters reports, citing news.ro. .

A brief retelling of the last events of the war:

• For the first time, Zelenskyi named how many Ukrainian soldiers died in the war started by Russia.
• Ukraine has a “clear” plan for a new counteroffensive against Russian troops, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Sunday, adding that he could not publicly disclose the details.
• Transnistria has no intention of applying to join Russia, Kyrylo Budanov believes.
• On Sunday, during a more than two-hour press conference in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky mocked the possibility of a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He doesn’t have a mobile phone. How can he call me? And I haven’t used the telegraph since 1917,” answered Zelensky.
• Kyiv accuses Russian troops of executing at least seven Ukrainian prisoners of war near Bakhmut.
• Pope Francis called for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine, which would lead to a just and lasting peace.
• Ukraine raised the possibility of inviting Russia to a peace summit.
• Half of the weapons promised to Ukraine by the West are being delivered late, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rusten Umerov complained on Sunday at a forum marking the second anniversary of the Russian invasion.
• British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday called on Western countries to be “braver” and confiscate frozen Russian assets to redistribute them to Ukraine.
• Ukraine tripled its arms production last year, and now 500 companies are working in the country’s defense sector, Kyiv’s Minister of Strategic Industry said on Sunday. He added that this year Ukraine intends to “significantly increase the production of ammunition.”

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