War in Ukraine: Zelenskyy slams 'deliberate murder' by Russian forces as cities pounded
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late on Sunday that Ukraine will not forgive Russia for all the victims and suffering the war it started had caused.
Civilians, including a family, were killed in shelling in a city outside Kyiv on Sunday, while a second attempt to evacuate civilians from besieged Mariupol failed due to continued Russian shelling.
The latest call between Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron on Sunday focused primarily on the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear plants.
Thousands of Russians were arrested for protesting against the invasion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Ukraine will not forgive Russia for all the victims and suffering the war it started had caused.
The address came on a special religious day known as "Forgiveness Sunday" on which according to the Eastern Orthodox Church tradition people ask each other for forgiveness, usually answering "God forgives and I forgive."
"We will not forgive the shelled houses. We will not forgive the missile that our air defence shot down today over Okhmatdyt. And even the more than five hundred other such missiles that hit our land in Ukraine, our people, our children," Zelekskyy in his speech.
About eight civilians were killed by Russian shelling in the town of Irpin on Sunday, on the northwest outskirts of Kyiv, according to Mayor Oleksander Markyshin. The dead included a family.
"Today a family was killed in Irpin. Man, woman and two children. Right on the road. As in a shooting gallery. When they tried to just get out of the city, to be saved. Whole family," the Ukrainian president said, adding "And how many such families in Ukraine died?"
He also said that Russia officially announced it will shell Ukraine's defence enterprises
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