Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova told Interfax news agency that this figure is as inaccurate as the one provided by the UN, as it doesn't include the surrounded Mariupol and temporarily occupied territories. Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian troops killed tens of thousands of people in Mariupol city alone.
"The EBU is making it up as it goes along, and the BBC — a public broadcaster accountable to this country — is sitting at that table nodding along. That has to change," British MP Josh Newbury said.
A day of mourning was being observed in Kyiv on May 15.
"The Russians are not hiding it, they are war criminals, and anyone who wants to strike a deal with them is an accomplice to these crimes," Serhii Sternenko wrote on X on May 15.
Almost all of the Ukrainian POWs who returned home had been held under Russian captivity for four years.
Kyiv announced a day of mourning after 24 people, including three children, were killed in the attack.
Documents and satellite images posted by President Volodymyr Zelensky suggest that the Kremlin plans to attack the President's Office in Kyiv and the president's state residence in Koncha Zaspa.
Patrick Fragman, the former CEO of U.S. nuclear energy firm Westinghouse Electric Company, resigned from his position at Energoatom, which operates Ukraine’s three working nuclear power plants, less than five months after being appointed to the board, the company announced on May 15.
According to Zelensky, Moscow has made fresh contact with Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, in an effort to convince him to "join new acts acts of aggression."
Under the new methodology, Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval rating rose for the first time since December.
Among the victims killed were three children, including a 12-year-old child, according to the State Emergency Service. Forty-seven people were reported injured as well.
Ukraine's military reportedly launched a large-scale drone attack overnight on May 15, striking Russian military and energy infrastructure in multiple regions of Russia, Russian Telegram media channels reported.
Ukraine has consistently qualified for the Eurovision final since it began participating in 2003 and won in 2004 with Ruslana's "Wild Dances," in 2016 with Jamala's "1944," and in 2022 with Kalush Orchestra's "Stefania."
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