KYIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy switched into Russian in his nightly video address to urge Russian soldiers not to fight in Ukraine, saying even their generals expected that thousands of them would die.
Highlights
- Sweden says a Russian military plane has violated Swedish airspace.
- Up to 1,000 civilians are living beneath a Soviet-era steel plant in Mariupol, Ukrainian officials say.
- Russia has been recruiting new troops “with little motivation and little combat experience” for units gutted during the early weeks of the war.
- Sweden and neighboring Finland are both considering NATO membership following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- Moscow has warned that such a move would have consequences, without giving specifics.
- A Russian rocket attack destroyed an airport runway in Odesa, Ukraine’s third-largest city, the Ukrainian army said Saturday.