The number of civilians killed in Ukraine since the beginning of the war is ‘thousands higher’ than official figures, UN says – as it happened

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The Ukrainian MP Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, a former head of the security services in the country, has been interviewed on Sky News in the UK from Kyiv. He said that yesterday we saw again the Victory Day madness in Moscow". He told viewers:

The same day in Ukraine, in the city of Odesa, the city of Mykolaiv, Russians shelled our cities, our civilians. In Putin's speech we did not hear any news, any good news for anybody, for us, for the whole world. It's still the same Soviet kind propaganda. Conducting a war on our soil because of this Russia's motherland". It sounds really like madness, especially on Victory Day.

How can we use civilians as a shield when the Russian Black Sea fleet, the Russian Caspian Sea fleet are shelling missiles, Kalibr and others, against civilians? There is no protection.

The war will continue until Vladimir Putin wants to stop it. We understand any night in any city we can expect shelling at any minute, any hour. That is Putin's responsibility and his decision.