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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Ukrainian army has destroyed more than 1,000 Russian tanks, nearly 200 Russian aircraft, and almost 2,500 armored fighting vehicles, CNN reported Saturday.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted the same information on Facebook.
"Of course, the occupiers still have equipment in stock. Yes, they still have missiles to strike at our territory," he added. "But this war has already weakened Russia so much that they have to plan even fewer military equipment for the parade in Moscow."
Russia plans to hold its traditional Victory Day parade in Red Square May 9, commemorating the German surrender to the Soviet Union in the Second World War.
U.S. Secretary of State about U.S. diplomats returning to Ukraine as soon as this coming week, according to spokesperson Ned Price.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to urge Russian soldiers not to fight in Ukraine, The Associated Press reports.
He said Russia has been recruiting new troops “with little motivation and little combat experience” for the units that were gutted during the early weeks of the war. He said Russian commanders fully understand that thousands of them will die and thousands more will be wounded.
“The Russian commanders are lying to their soldiers when they tell them they can expect to be held seriously responsible for refusing to fight and then also don’t tell them, for example, that the Russian army is preparing additional refrigerator trucks for storing the bodies,” Zelenskyy said late Saturday.
“Every Russian soldier can still save his own life. It’s better for you to survive in Russia than to perish on our land,” he said.
The British Foreign Office said on Sunday that Russia is using a troll factory to spread disinformation about the war in Ukraine on social media and target politicians across a number of countries including Britain and South Africa, .
Among their targets have been senior British ministers and other world leaders, Britain said, adding that traces of the operation had been detected across eight social media platforms including Telegram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok.
Britain cited UK-funded expert research, which it did not publish.
Russia says the Western media have provided an excessively partial narrative of the war that largely ignores Moscow's concerns about the enlargement of NATO.
The Swedish Armed Forces said in a statement Saturday that a Russian AN-30 propeller plane entered Swedish airspace late Friday in the Baltic Sea near the island of Bornholm.
The Swedish Air Force scrambled fighter jets, which photographed the Russian plane.
Sweden and neighboring Finland are both considering NATO membership, and Moscow has warned that such a move would have consequences, without giving specifics.
The runway at the Odesa airport that was destroyed by a Russian missile strike had taken 10 years to design and build and had formally opened last July, Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov said, Reuters reports.
In his nightly video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it would be rebuilt.
"The Odesa airport runway was destroyed. We will, of course, rebuild it. But Odesa will never forget Russia's behavior towards it," he said.
Odesa regional governor Maksym Marchenko said Russia had used a Bastion missile, launched from Crimea.
"Thank God no one was hurt. Anti-sabotage measures are being carried out in the region," he said in a video posted online.
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed the progress of the U.N. effort to evacuate people from Mariupol talk Saturday with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The United Nations has been attempting to broker an evacuation in the port city where some 100,000 civilians remain. Up to 1,000 civilians are living beneath a Soviet-era steel plant in Mariupol, according to Ukrainian officials.
Ukraine’s national grid operator says it has restored a reliable power supply in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, around the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster, The Associated Press reports.
According to a post Saturday on Telegram, the state-owned Ukrenergo restored “the last necessary 330 kV power transmission line” and restored another 330 kV line in the northern Kyiv region, helping to stabilize the energy supply in the capital. It said the reconstruction of further transmission lines in and around Kyiv remains underway.
Actress and U.N. humanitarian to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, the Lviv regional governor said on Telegram.