Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Kyiv's allies are "finally" providing the weapons requested by his country, while Moscow acknowledged the death of a soldier and the loss of others in the "Moskva" incident.
In a video speech broadcast late at night, Zelensky said that the statements made by a Russian leader, earlier on Friday, about the need to reach the Russian-occupied separatist part of Moldova indicate that Russia wants to invade other countries.
For its part, Canada said it had provided Ukrainian security forces with heavy artillery, following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's pledge earlier this week to send more artillery pieces to Ukraine in the face of a Russian attack on its eastern regions.
Canada's Defense Ministry said it has delivered a number of M777 howitzers and their ammunition to Ukrainian forces and is finalizing contracts for armored vehicles that it will send to Ukraine as soon as possible.
French President Emmanuel Macron also announced that his country intends to deliver Ukraine self-propelled Caesar howitzers and thousands of shells to confront Russian forces.
Russian confession
Meanwhile, the Russian Information Agency quoted the Defense Ministry as saying, on Friday, that one sailor was killed and 27 others were missing after the Russian cruiser Moskva sank last week, while 396 other crew members of the missile cruiser were rescued.
Moscow says the cruiser "Moskva" - the main ship of its fleet in the Black Sea - sank last week after a fire caused an explosion of ammunition, while Ukraine says it was hit by an anti-ship missile.
This is the first time that Russia has admitted that it incurred human losses in the sinking of the cruiser Moskva, knowing that it initially confirmed that all crew members of the cruiser had been safely evacuated from it before it sank.
Zelensky announced that his country had received Western weapons (French)
war crimes?
On the other hand, the spokeswoman for the United Nations Human Rights Office, Ravina Shamdasani, said that there is increasing evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, including indications of indiscriminate bombing and summary executions, while noting that Ukraine appears to have been used Weapons with random effects.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, stressed on Friday that Russia's "indiscriminate" actions in Ukraine may amount to "war crimes".
In a statement, Bachelet added that the Russian armed forces "indiscriminately bombed" populated areas, and the bombing resulted in the deaths of civilians and the destruction of hospitals, schools and other civilian infrastructure, and stressed that these actions "may amount to war crimes."