Ukraine urged international organizations on Sunday to respond to reports of Ukrainian prisoners of war being executed in Russia's Kursk region. Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on Telegram that he sent letters to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross regarding the case,

Russian pro-war milbloggers have reacted to yet more reports of Ukrainian POWs being executed by Moscow’s forces by seeking to justify the killings, while some have even called for more. In the latest case of what appears to be an increasingly common occurrence,

Russian units continue to advance on Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region in nearly all directions. According to analysts and representatives of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), we may witness Ukrainians withdrawing from Russian-controlled areas in the coming weeks.

President Volodymyr Zelensky is pleading for more arms and other assistance to help end the war on favorable terms, but the Biden administration is skeptical.

Ukraine has the right to defend itself against Russian aggression, even by attacking targets on Russian territory, asserts former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Source: Stoltenberg in an interview for German newspaper Der Spiegel,