Zelenskyy offered to hand over captured Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk in exchange for Ukrainians detained by Russian forces.
Russia's appointment of new general shows attempt to centralize operations, UK MoD says
Western and Ukrainian officials believe at least seven Russian generals have been killed in Ukraine since Russia's invasion began, an extraordinary rate, considering generals typically do not engage in frontline combat. Military analysts say the deaths reflect logistical and operational failures and poor morale among frontline soldiers, requiring more senior commanders to step in and thereby face greater risk of being killed.
"I offer the Russian Federation to exchange this guy of yours for our boys and our girls who are now in Russian captivity," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address. Local officials in Ukraine say this figure does not take into account tens of thousands of Ukrainians who have been deported from Russian-controlled regions and taken to Russia via"filtration camps."ALEXEI DRUZHININ | AFP | Getty Images
They insist it was not Russian soldiers who went on a month-long rampage of looting and killing, even as witnesses, satellite imagery and forensic evidence have suggested otherwise.
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