“Do you remember how in Russia, at the beginning of May, they hoped to occupy all of Donbass?” said the president. “It is already the 108th day of the war, already June. “Donbass is holding on.”
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stressed in a message last night, that no one knows how long the war will last in his country. However, he said the Ukrainian army was “defying expectations” by preventing Russian troops from taking over. eastern Ukrainewhere fighting has been fiercer for weeks, according to the Associated Press.
In a video message, Zelensky he said proudly for the Ukrainian defenders who managed to contain the Russian advance in the Donbass region, which borders Russia and where the Moscow-backed separatists have controlled much of the territory for eight years.
“Remember how in Russia, at the beginning of May, did they hope to occupy all of Donbass? ” said the president. “Is already the 108th day of the war, already June. “Donbass is holding on.”
“The losses suffered by the occupiers, including in this area, are extremely significant. Overall, the Russian military has about today 32,000 dead souls. For what reason;” he wondered.
“No one can say now how long this ‘burning of souls’ from Russia will last. “But we must do everything we can to make the occupiers regret that they did all this and hold them accountable for every murder and every blow to our beautiful state,” he said.
Russia uses excessive combat power and artillery for the gradual occupation of areas around it Severonetskas announced in the meantime on Saturday the British Ministry of Defense.
Russia may have begun preparations for the deployment of a third battalion from various battle formations in recent weeks, the ministry said in a recent briefing. Twitter.