Ukraine will have a good time its Independence Day on August 24.

Kyiv:

Russia would possibly take the provocative step of placing Ukrainian troopers on trial as Kyiv marks 31 years of independence for the war-ravaged nation subsequent week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Sunday.

Zelensky cited media studies that Russia was getting ready to place Ukrainian fighters captured throughout the siege of Mariupol on a public trial to coincide with the independence anniversary Wednesday.

Ukraine’s Independence Day, August 24, may even mark six months since Russia invaded the previous Soviet republic, in a devastating warfare that has value hundreds of lives.

“If this despicable court takes place, if our people are brought into these settings in violation of all agreements, all international rules, there will be abuse,” Zelensky warned in a night handle.

“This will be the line beyond which no negotiations are possible.”

The capital Kyiv has already introduced a ban on public gatherings. Kharkiv too, declared a curfew across the vacation.

Zelensky was returning to a topic he had already raised within the earlier evening’s remarks.

“Russia could try to do something particularly disgusting, particularly cruel,” he warned late Saturday.

“One of the key objectives of the enemy is to humiliate us,” and “to sow despondency, fear and conflict”.

But he added: “We have to be strong enough to resist all provocation” and “make the occupiers pay for their terror”.

‘Be vigilant’

A presidential adviser, Mykhaylo Podolyak, stated Russia might intensify its bombing marketing campaign.

“Russia is an archaic state that links its actions to certain dates, it’s an obsession of sorts,” the Interfax-Ukraine information company quoted him as saying.

“They hate us and will try to increase… the number of bombings of our cities including Kyiv with cruise missiles,” Podolyak added.

Kyiv authorities on Sunday banned public gatherings from August 22 to August 25.

In the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv, the regional governor introduced a curfew from the night of August 23 to the morning of August 25.

“We will not allow any provocation by the enemy. Be as vigilant as possible during our independence holiday,” Oleg Synegubov wrote on Telegram.

Kharkiv has been beneath common Russian bombardment for weeks and on Sunday emergency providers stated a lady was killed and two different civilians had been wounded in in a single day strikes.

Four civilians had been reported killed by Russian hearth in Donetsk, stated the area’s pro-Kyiv governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

Five cruise missiles had been fired at Odessa from the Black Sea, a regional administration spokesman stated. Two had been shot down by air defences and three hit a silo with out inflicting damage.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)