Vyacheslav Shtuchnyi, the parliament's secretary general, said the Kyiv mural is a tribute to all those who defend Ukraine every day against Russian aggression. The man is then shown pulling the cigarette from his mouth, blowing out the smoke and saying the battle cry before being executed, with fighters off camera firing several shots at him. The clip showed an unarmed soldier allegedly in Russian captivity wearing Ukrainian combat fatigues and smoking a cigarette, near what appears to be a fighting position. More about the video: Zelensky vowed last month to "find the murderers" involved in the video, as officials in Kyiv roundly condemned the incident as a war crime. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posthumously awarded Matsiyevsky with the country's highest honor, the Hero of Ukraine medal, later in March. The mural depicts Oleksandr Matsiyevsky, a prisoner of war who shouted, "Slava Ukraini (Glory to Ukraine)" before he was executed by Russian forces on December 30, 2022. Video of the execution surfaced and prompted outrage across the country. (Ukrainian Parliament)Ī mural by French street artist Christian Guemy, who is known by the pseudonym C215, has appeared in the center of Kyiv on an administrative building of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament said on Facebook Saturday. The strike is believed to have been the deadliest attack on Ukrainian civilians in months.įrench artist Christian Guemy dedicated a new mural in Kyiv to Oleksandr Matsiyevsky, a Ukrainian prisoner of war.
Two residents who are still missing are presumed dead, according to a local police official.Ī makeshift memorial was set up, according to a CNN team on the ground, as rescuers dug through rubble and family members waited for news of loved ones. The Russian Defense Ministry has yet to comment on the incident.Ī spokesperson for the Ukrainian defense ministry's military intelligence service cautioned residents of Crimea against going near any military sites for the time being.Īpartment strike in Uman: The search and rescue operation in the central Ukrainian city was declared over, following Friday’s deadly missile strike that hit an apartment building, killing at least 23 people - including six children, according to authorities. No one was injured in the blaze, according to the governor. Mikhail Razvozhaev said "only one drone was able to reach the oil reservoir" and another one was downed. Massive fire in Crimea: In the early hours of Saturday, the Russian-backed governor of Sevastopol says a suspected drone attack hit an oil depot in the Crimean port city.
Meanwhile, Nova Kakhova - a Russian-occupied town in the south that is home to an important hydroelectric project on the Dnipro River - experienced "severe artillery fire" by Ukrainian forces, according to the local Russian-backed administration. Satellite imagery reviewed by CNN and other news organizations shows Russia pumping up its defenses in parts of southern Ukraine, with layers of anti-tank ditches, obstacles, minefields and trenches. He said Ukraine is still in need of "certain weapons," and the main risk for his troops is whether they will have enough of the ammunition they need. As Sunday nears in Ukraine, this is what we've been tracking today:Īnticipated counteroffensive: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview posted on his Telegram Saturday that Ukraine is prepping for a counteroffensive against Russian troops, stressing that it "will happen." He demurred on giving any exact start dates in an interview with reporters.
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