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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed members of the Knesset, the legislature of Israel, on Sunday, criticizing the country for not doing more to help Ukraine.

During the address, Zelenskyy drew parallels between Ukraine and Israel's challenges with their neighbors and questioned why Israel has not sent arms to Ukraine or imposed sanctions on Russia.

"Everyone in Israel knows that your missile defense is the best," Zelenskyy said. "It is powerful. Everyone knows that your weapon is strong. Everyone knows you're doing great. You know how to defend your state interests, the interests of your people. And you can definitely help us protect our lives, the lives of Ukrainians, the lives of Ukrainian Jews. One can keep asking why we can't get weapons from you. Or why Israel has not imposed strong sanctions against Russia."

Zelenskyy described the Russian invasion as "a large-scale and treacherous war aimed at destroying our people," quoting former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who was born in Kyiv.

"We intend to remain alive. Our neighbors want to see us dead," Zelenskyy said. "This is not a question that leaves much room for compromise."

During Zelensky's speech, the Knesset's cyber unit and the National Cyber Directorate fought off a number of cyberattacks aimed at interrupting the live-streamed speech, the Jerusalem Post reported, citing the Knesset.

-ABC News' Christine Theodorou

Russian military units are completing an overthrow of Ukraine’s nationalist Donbas Battalion, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters at a briefing on Sunday.

The units advanced by 12 kilometers over the past day to reach the Nikolske line and blocked the populated area of Solodke from three sides, Konashenkov claimed.

Almost 1,500 Ukrainian tanks and other armored vehicles have been destroyed since the start of the military operation, Konashenkov alleged.

In addition, 150 Ukrainian multiple rocket launcher systems, 584 field artillery weapons and mortars, and 1,279 pieces of special military mortar equipment have been liquidated, he said.

The Russian Aerospace Forces also destroyed 89 Ukrainian military objects, as well as seven drones, over the past 24 hours, Konashenkov claimed.

About 10 million Ukrainians have been displaced within the country or have sought refuge in other countries since the invasion began last month, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported on Sunday.

Between Feb. 24 and March 19, 3,389,044 refugees left Ukraine, according to the agency, meaning there are more than 6 million internally displaced in Ukraine.

-ABC News' Christine Theodorou

Local authorities in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol have accused Russian forces of forcibly deporting residents to Russia.

Mariupol’s city council said in a statement it received information Sunday morning that Russian troops were forcing residents of Azovstalkaya Street and from part of the Levoberezhny area to go to Russia. The statement said Russian forces were confiscating the Ukrainian passports of those being deported and issuing them a piece of paper.

ABC News has not independently confirmed the reports of people being forced to leave by Russian troops.

The Russian state news agency TASS reported on Saturday that 13 buses carrying 350 people were moving to Russia. About 50 of those people were to be sent by railway to the Yaroslavl region and the rest to temporary processing centers in Taganrog, a city in Russia’s southeastern Rostov region near Ukraine.

Ukraine has been trying to evacuate thousands of residents from Mariupol, with tens of thousands managing to escape in the past few days -- mostly in private cars heading towards the Ukrainian-held city of Zaporizhzhia. Around 300,000 people are trapped in Mariupol, according to Ukrainian officials.

In some parts of Ukraine, Russia has opened "humanitarian corridors" to Russia. Some people in some cities have chosen to go to Russia to escape the fighting, though the vast majority are seeking to move to safety in other parts of Ukraine.