"The longer the war lasts, the harder it is to compete for the attention of hundreds of millions of people in different countries. But I will do everything possible so that attention on Ukraine does not fade."
President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday quoted by Ukrinform.
"The Russian invasion forces continue to bomb Ukrainian cities, which shows that Russia is an evil that can only be stopped on the battlefield," he added.
Meanwhile, Russian television is now broadcast in the entire occupied region of
Kherson
, in southern Ukraine, through 24 channels: the Russian Defense Ministry announced today.
Tass reports it.
More than 1,500 Ukrainian civilians are being held in Russian prisons, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said yesterday at a press conference, according to the Kyiv Independent.
"They are in Rostov, in Kursk, they are in prison, they are held as prisoners of war, even if they should not be", Vereshchuk underlined, adding that among the civilians there are priests, volunteers, activists, journalists and leaders of local authorities. Ukrainians.
Moscow authorities have deported 1.2 million Ukrainian citizens to Russia since the invasion began, according to Iryna Vereshchuk, reports the Ukrinform agency.
"I have the figure of how many were deported in total, and it is slightly different from that provided by Russia. But you understand that Russia never tells the truth ...
They say it is almost two million people.
According to our intelligence services, this is about 1.2 million people, "Vereshchuk said, underlining that there are 240,000 children, of which 2,000 are orphans.