Ukraine on Sunday claimed that 11 local people leaders have been allegedly kidnapped by Russian forces, information company AFP reported because the warfare entered the thirty ninth day. "As much as at present, 11 heads of native communities within the areas of Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Donetsk are in captivity," deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk mentioned in a video message posted on her Telegram account. 

"We're informing the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross (ICRC), the UN, all attainable organisations, identical to for the opposite civilians who've disappeared," she added. 

Vereshchuk urged "everybody to do all the things of their energy to get them again."

The deputy prime minister introduced the that Olga Sukhenko, head of the village of Motyjin, west of Kyiv, and her husband had been "killed in captivity" by Russian troopers. In one other growth, the native Luhanks governor claimed that mayors of 4 cities- Rubizhne, Stanytsia Luhanska, Milove and Markivka, switched their allegiance and have been now working for Russia, The Kyiv Impartial reported.

The preventing between Russian and Ukrainian forces have entered the thirty ninth consecutive day. The Russian forces mentioned they'd struck an oil processing plant and gasoline depots across the strategic Black Sea port of Odesa, information company AP reported. 

The regional governor in Kharkiv mentioned Russian troops continued shelling the town in northeast Ukraine. Kharkiv regional Gov. Oleh Synyehubov mentioned on Sunday that Russian artillery and tanks carried out over 20 strikes on Kharkiv and its outskirts over the previous 24 hours.

Moscow's chief negotiator advised Bloomberg that Russia and Ukraine will resume talks by video, claiming that Kyiv was changing into extra ‘life like’ in its positions. Nevertheless, a prime Ukrainian official mentioned that the proof of Russian army crimes had come to mild after its forces retreat from positions close to Kyiv.