Hostomel Mayor killed

Russian troops killed the head of the Hostomel community, Yuri Prylypko, and two of his comrades while distributing humanitarian aid.

The Hostomel Council has confirmed the reports on Facebook, Report informs, citing Ukrinform.

"The head of the Hostomel community, Yuriy Ilyich Prylypko, was killed while handing out bread to the hungry and medicine to the sick, comforting the burnt and consoling the desperate," the statement said, adding that for this, he was shot dead, along with his comrades-in-arms Ruslan Karpenko and Ivan Zoria.

It is noted that Prylypko was not obliged to go face the bullets of them.

Hostomel is a town in Ukraine's Kyiv Oblast, north-western suburb to the capital city of Kyiv. On March 6, President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded the "Hero City" title to six Ukrainian cities and towns, including Hostomel.