According to official information, several people have been killed in new attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the eastern Ukrainian metropolis Kharkiv.

According to information from Saturday, there were also airstrikes in other parts of Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the highest number of soldiers killed from his own ranks so far.

Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on television that several people in his city had been taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

There is a dead man.

The attack hit the district of Darnyzja in the southeast of the metropolis.

The Russian military claims the target was a tank factory.

Initially, there was no confirmation from the Ukrainian authorities.

The Ukrainian arms company Ukroboronprom said only that a missile factory southwest of Kyiv was hit.

Zelenskyj threatens to end the peace talks

According to official information, at least one person was also killed in an attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

In addition, 18 people were injured.

Attacks were also reported in western Ukraine in the Lviv region and a military airfield in Oleksandriya in central Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has threatened to end the peace talks with Moscow if Russia "knocks out" the last Ukrainian troops in the heavily contested port city of Mariupol.

It would be a "dead end" for both sides, because we are not negotiating about our territories or our people, Zelenskyi told the Ukrainska Pravda news website on Saturday.

He also accused Russia of not allowing escape corridors.

"To be honest, we have no faith in the Mariupol negotiations."

Mariupol has been under siege since the first days after the Russian invasion on February 24th.

The city, which once had over 400,000 inhabitants, has now been largely destroyed and the humanitarian situation is catastrophic.

With a capture of the port city, Russian troops would establish a land connection between the two areas and cut off Ukraine from the Sea of ​​Azov.

On the American broadcaster CNN, Selenskyj again warned of a possible use of nuclear weapons by the Russians.

"Not just me - the whole world, all countries have to be concerned because it can't be real information, but it can be the truth." The 44-year-old was responding to statements by CIA chief Bill Burns, who was of the military setbacks to Russia in Ukraine had stressed that the possible threat of a Russian use of tactical nuclear bombs should not be taken lightly.

Russia's troops in the east probably ready to attack

Meanwhile, the governor of the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk said Russia had already massed tens of thousands of soldiers for an offensive in the near future.

In addition, hundreds of units of technology were transported to the region, said Serhij Hajdaj.

"They have already prepared everything for a breakthrough." In his estimation, the Russian troops were only waiting for better weather before launching their attacks simultaneously in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

According to weather forecasts, the rain is expected to stop in both regions by the middle of next week.

Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to deliver armed vehicles to Ukraine in the coming days.

Johnson has assured Selenskyj that Britain will continue to provide Ukraine with material to defend itself, Downing Street said in a statement on Saturday evening.

Moscow, in turn, had imposed an entry ban on the British Prime Minister in response to Western sanctions.

His predecessor Theresa May, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace and Secretary of State Liz Truss are also no longer allowed to go to Russia.

A list published by the Foreign Ministry in Moscow includes the names of 13 British officials.

Russia had previously issued entry bans against US President Joe Biden and politicians from the European Union, Australia and New Zealand.

In the evening, Russia's Defense Ministry also claimed that the Ukrainian armed forces had been almost completely expelled from Mariupol.

The RIA news agency quoted a spokesman for the ministry as saying that some fighters were still trapped in the Azovstal factory.

Accordingly, the Ukrainians are said to have lost more than 4,000 military personnel in the besieged coastal city.

The information cannot be independently verified.