Zelensi said it would be difficult to capture North Koreans alive because “Russians and other North Korean soldiers would finish off the wounded” in order to hide “evidence of North Korea's participation in the war.” said. He said he would provide media access to the prisoners because “the world needs to know what's going on.” “Maximum pressure is needed on the regimes in Moscow and Pyongyang,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Shibiga wrote online.
Russia has announced that its military has captured a village near the logistics center of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, a key target as it advances through the Donetsk region. The Ukrainian military did not mention the village of Shevchenko in its latest report on frontline operations, but said Russia had launched more than 50 attacks on Ukrainian military positions near Pokrovsk in the past 24 hours. According to a Russian military report, the Russian military launched attacks with aircraft, drones and missiles against Ukrainian military airfields and energy infrastructure serving the military. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced that its forces had repelled 46 out of 56 Russian attacks around about 12 towns in the Pokrovsk region. Ten collisions ensued. Vadim Filashkin, the governor of part of Donetsk Oblast occupied by Ukrainian forces, announced that a village north of Pokrovsk had been hit by Russian shelling, killing one resident and injuring four others.
The Kiev Air Force said early Saturday that Russia launched 74 drones into Ukraine during the night and shot down 47 of them, adding that the remaining 27 disappeared from radar without reaching their target. The Air Force said falling debris from the downed drone damaged buildings and vehicles in seven areas, but there were no casualties.
Russia announced on Saturday that Ukraine had launched a drone attack in several Russian regions, hitting two homes in the Tambov region and injuring several people. Ukraine denies Russian attacks on civilian targets. Regional head Yevgeny Pervishov said on Telegram that people were treated for injuries caused by broken windows when the drones struck two homes in the city of Kotovsk, 480 kilometers (300 miles) southeast of Moscow. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it intercepted and destroyed 85 Ukrainian drones overnight in several regions of Ukraine. Of these, 31 were over the Black Sea, 16 each over the Voronezh and Krasnodar regions, and 14 over the Azov Sea.
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday awarded Corporal Andrei Grigoriev Russia's highest honor for bravery after a widely posted video of him killing a Ukrainian enemy in hand-to-hand combat. Ukrainian media identified the slain soldier as Dmytro Maslovsky from the southern Odesa region.
