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Olena Zelenka, the wife of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, spoke to . In the interview, she talks about the night of the invasion, says she and her children are not with her husband in Kyiv and only speak by phone. She has also started a Telegram channel for Ukrainian women to send her their stories:
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said NATO is making plans for a permanent presence on its border.
NATO was "in the midst of a very fundamental transformation" that will reflect "the long-term consequences" of Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions, Stoltenberg told The Telegraph.
“Therefore, we have now asked our military commanders to provide options for what we call a reset, a longer-term adaptation of NATO," Stoltenberg said, adding that decisions on the reset are to be made in June at a summit in Madrid.
Russian shelling killed five civilians and wounded five others in two east Ukrainian cities Saturday, the local governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, posted on Telegram.
Four of them died in the city of Vugledar, and one in the town of Novomikhaylovka, he said, Agence France-Presse reports.
Further north, in the Kharkiv region, "at least two people were killed in Slatyne as a result of a (Russian) shelling and another injured," the mayor of the neighboring municipality of Dergachi, Vyacheslav Zadorenko, wrote on Facebook.
On Saturday, the Ukrainian army announced on Facebook that it had "destroyed four tanks, eight armored vehicles and seven enemy vehicles," as well as "a plane, a helicopter" and drones.
The official Twitter account of Ukraine released a video of the walk around Kyiv that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson took on Saturday.
A total of 4,532 people were evacuated from Ukrainian cities through humanitarian corridors on Saturday, fewer than the 6,665 who escaped on Friday, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine's presidential administration, announced in an online post.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told The Associated Press that he remains open to peace negotiations, but Ukraine’s chief negotiator, Mykhailo Podolyak, said Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin would not meet until after the country defeated Russia in the east, which would bolster its negotiating position.
"We are paying a very high price. But Russia must get rid of its imperial illusions," he said, according to the Interfax Ukraine news agency.
Russian forces continue to use improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to inflict casualties, lower morale, and restrict Ukrainian freedom of movement, .
"Russian forces also continue to attack infrastructure targets with a high risk of collateral harm to civilians," the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
Russia's departure from northern Ukraine leaves evidence of the disproportionate targeting of non-combatants, the statement said.
Mayors across Poland, anxious about the wellbeing of their Ukrainian refugees, are refusing the government’s instructions to sound air raid sirens Sunday in observance of the 2010 plane crash of Poland’s president, The Associated Press reports.
President Lech Kaczynski, the twin of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and 95 other prominent Poles died in the crash.
“We will not sound the sirens on the anniversary,” said Rafal Bruski, mayor of the central city of Bydgoszcz. “I have seen too many children terrified by war.”
"No one wants to negotiate with a person or people who tortured this nation. It's all understandable. And as a man, as a father, I understand this very well," Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told The Associated Press in an interview on Saturday. But "we don't want to lose opportunities, if we have them, for a diplomatic solution."
Zelenskyy looked exhausted yet animated by a drive to persevere. He spoke to the AP inside the presidential office complex, where windows and hallways are protected by towers of sandbags and heavily armed soldiers.
"We have to fight, but fight for life. You can't fight for dust when there is nothing and no people. That's why it is important to stop this war," he said.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Saturday he was deeply disappointed and saddened by the behavior of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reports.
The tycoon, for years had a close friendship with the Russian leader, said Putin must take full responsibility for the invasion of Ukraine.
"The attack on Ukraine, instead of bringing Russia into Europe has thrown it into the arms of China. … What a pity, what a pity," he said.