“The human cost of this battle is very high for us. “It’s just scary,” Zelensky said in his daily evening sermon to Ukrainians, which was uploaded to the Telegram platform.
The “human cost” of the battle for Severodonetsk, a city of strategic importance in eastern Ukraine, is “frightening,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday, as Russian forces have extended their control in recent days. Kyiv to have fully understood it.
“The human cost of this battle is very high for us. “It’s just scary,” Zelensky said in his daily evening sermon to Ukrainians, which was uploaded to the Telegram platform.
“The Battle of Donbass will certainly go down in military history as one of the fiercest in Europe,” he added.
“Up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers” are killed and “500 are injured daily” in battles with the Russian army, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said last Thursday.
Mr Zelensky, for his part, said on June 1 that his army was losing “60 to 100” soldiers a day.
“We are facing the ultimate evil,” he said last night. Before adding: “we have no choice but to advance and liberate our country”, as the areas in the south and east occupied by the Russian troops have been “excluded from civilization” as the Moscow forces have cut off “all communications “with the outside world.
Mr Zelensky has once again called on the West to supply the Ukrainian army with “more weapons” as Moscow forces occupy most of Severodonetsk and continue to pound Ukrainian artillery.
Earlier in the day, Luhansk’s Ukrainian governor, Sergiy Haidai, said that “70-80% of the city” had fallen to the Russians and that the “three bridges” connecting Sheverontonyevsk with the Lisichansk twin city were now “destroyed”. ».
