An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia had confirmed that it was holding more than 3,000 prisoners of war. She added that 15,000 people were missing, many of them civilians, Bloomberg reports.
Russia unleashed one of the most intense missile barrages of the conflict, targeting major Ukrainian cities including the capital, Kyiv, and Lviv in the west near Poland.
Alexei Arestovich, adviser to the head of Zelensky's office, also reported that the armed forces of Ukraine are suffering serious losses in the Artyomovsky and Soledar regions of the Donetsk People's Republic. The politician said this on Feigin Live.
He explained that the directions of the "main strike" of the Ukrainian units are "the eastern regions of Bakhmut (the Ukrainian name of Artyomovsky) and Soledar with its nearby areas."
Of 69 cruise missiles launched by Kremlin forces from strategic bombers and ships in the Black Sea, 54 were shot down by air-defense systems, according to Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s army commander-in-chief. In a separate incident, Belarus said its air defense shot down a Ukrainian anti-air rocket over its territory.
The US is considering sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine as part of a further package of military support, according to people familiar with the matter.
