Ukraine has set its sights on the Russian military, who are shooting at the cityto have a large nuclear plant in Europe or to use it as a firing base, while the G7 countries, fearing a nuclear disaster, asked Moscow to withdraw its forces from this plant.

The main thing from Sunday, the 172nd day of the war in Ukraine:

08:48 Russian troops have committed more than 28,000 war crimes, Ukrainian prosecutors claim, Kyiv Independent reports.

The General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine stated that since the beginning of the war, Russian troops in Ukraine have committed 28,231 war crimes.

08:37 The UK MoD Sunday morning assessment:

• Over the past week, Russia’s priority has probably been to reorient its troops to support southern Ukraine.
• However, in Donbas, Russian-backed forces – mostly militias of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic – continued to attempt to attack the northern part of the city of Donetsk.
• Particularly fierce fighting was concentrated in the village of Pisky, not far from which the Donetsk airport is located. The settlement is likely to remain controversial. Since 2014, this territory has been on the demarcation line in Donbas.
• The Russian assault is probably aimed at protecting its M04 highway, the main approach road to Donetsk from the west.

A brief summary of recent events:

• Volodymyr Zelenskyi has said that any Russian military personnel who fire on the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant or use it as a cover will be a “special target” and have repeatedly accused Moscow of using the nuclear power plant as nuclear blackmail.
• Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the President of Ukraine, accused Russia of “striking a part of the nuclear plant that produces electricity that supplies the south of Ukraine.” The station was captured by Russian troops in March, but it is still operated by Ukrainian technicians.
• A senior State Department official said Russia had told the United States that diplomatic ties would be severely damaged and could even be severed if Russia were to be designated a “state sponsor of terrorism” by the United States.
• Two more ships left Ukrainian Black Sea ports on Saturday, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said, bringing the total number of ships to leave the country under the UN-brokered deal to 16.
• The US claims that India hid the Russian origin of fuel supplied to the US.
• Estonia declares that, together with Finland, it will be able to close the Gulf of Finland to the Russian fleet.
• ANALYSIS: Why Ukraine is unable to more successfully resist the superiority of Russian artillery
• ANALYSIS: Did Ukraine use a new surface-to-surface missile system during the attack on Crimea? In this case, Russia will face huge problems.

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• Saturday’s events related to the Russian invasion were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro