Russian forces killed the mayor of Gostomel, a town near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv that is home to a strategic airport, authorities revealed on Monday.
"The head of Gostomel, Yuri Illich Prylypko, died while distributing bread to the hungry and medicine to the sick," the city said on its Facebook page.
The statement added that the mayor was shot dead along with two others.
"No-one forced him to go under the occupiers' bullets," it said. "He died for his people, for Gostomel. He died a hero."
Gostomel, northwest of Kyiv, is home to the strategic Antonov military airport, which was the site of fierce battles between Ukrainian and Russian forces in the first days of the war.
The Russian troops delivered a strike with lethal weapons to destroy a large depot with Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missile systems in Ukraine’s Zhitomir.
Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said: “In the past 24 hours, a strike was delivered with long-range precision weapons to destroy the ammo depot on the territory of a military unit in Zhitomir where Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missile systems were kept.”
The defense ministry announced that the armed forces disabled over 2,000 military targets of Ukraine since the start of the special operation.
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