For Ukrainians, the question of possible allied security guarantees is a key point in any potential peace deal.
Mr Zelensky said the two men were fighting for the Russians in the eastern Donetsk region
Russian forces launched seven S300 and S400 projectiles from the annexed Crimean Black Sea peninsula, the Ukrainian air force said.
At least five people were killed—two due to a rocket strike on a hotel in Kryvyi Rih and three others due to drone attacks on Zaporizhzhya.
There were initially no reports of casualties or damage.
The UN documented 92 cases of children last year, most of which were used as human shields in Ukraine. According to the report, the Russians were responsible for all but one of these cases.
Russia says it is still far from reaching some of its self-declared goals since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The journalists were banned by the Ukrainian military not to report from the recently recaptured Kherson region.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a presidential adviser, said the Ukrainian air defence systems shot down 41.
From 2023, Russia’s military would grow in total to two million people, according to a decree published on Thursday.
