LIVE – War in Ukraine: Zelensky calls for an end to “daily air terror”

As fighting rages in the Donetsk region, a Ukrainian investigator examines the debris of a Russian drone, an S-70 “Hunter”, which crashed in the Kostyantynivka area.

“Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed more than 50 Shaheds” in several regions of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky informed Sunday, sharing a series of images on the social network X. “During this week, the enemy used about 20 missiles of different types, more than 800 guided aerial bombs and almost 400 strike drones of different types.”

“This daily aerial terror can be stopped. This requires the unity of our partners and long-range capabilities, which will help save Ukrainian lives every day,” he said.

The Russian army launched a series of strikes against kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight from Saturday to Sunday, announced the head of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital, Serhi Popko. “The enemy once again used its drones against kyiv during the night!” the Ukrainian official said on Telegram messaging. “Russian drones attacked the Ukrainian capital in several waves and from different directions.” No damage or injuries were reported, he said.

Ukraine announced on Saturday that it had opened an investigation into the alleged execution by Russian troops of four Ukrainian prisoners of war in the summer of 2024 in Vovchansk. This investigation concerns “the deliberate killing of four prisoners of war – servicemen of the Ukrainian armed forces -, who were executed by the Russian military on the orders of their command during the summer of 2024 on the territory of the factory aggregates of Vovchansk”, indicated the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office of the Kharkiv region.

“These facts are documented thanks to cooperation with the defense intelligence services of Ukraine,” assured the prosecutor’s office in a statement, which questioned Russian prisoners of war. According to this source, a potential suspect is “held in captivity in Ukraine” and could therefore be tried.

Russia claimed Saturday the capture of a new village near Pokrovsk, a city which serves as a logistics hub in eastern Ukraine and which Russian forces have been gradually approaching for weeks. “Thanks to active and decisive action, units of the Southern troop group liberated the village of Zhelannoye Vtoroye,” Zhélanné Drugué in Ukrainian, announced the Russian Defense Ministry.

This village is located southeast of the city of Ukraïnsk, which the Russian army captured at the end of September. In this sector of the front, Russian troops threaten Pokrovsk, where there are large coal mines.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Saturday that he would take part in the international summit on Ukraine’s defense in Germany next week, which his American counterpart Joe Biden is also due to attend. “We are preparing for the 25th Ramstein meeting on October 12, which will be the first to take place at the leadership level” of the approximately 50 countries supporting kyiv.

He said he would present “clear and concrete measures towards a just end to the war”, assuring that Russia could be stopped by “the determination of partners and the strengthening of Ukraine”. This meeting will take place before the presidential election in the United States in November, which could call into question, in the event of Donald Trump’s victory, American support, crucial for kyiv.

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