The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, assured this Monday that the counteroffensive launched a week ago to recover territories occupied by Russia in the south of the country has already resulted in the liberation of two cities.
“I will not go into details, but the Ukrainian flags are returning to the places where they should be by right,” said the Ukrainian president, after another meeting of the General Staff, in which the Ukrainian war strategy was analyzed.
In his speech on Sunday night, Zelenky was a bit clearer, saying that the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ 42nd Separate Motorized Infantry Battalion had “liberated two cities in the south” of the country “thanks to its heroic actions.”
Zelensky made the remarks after Ukrainian media published a photo of soldiers raising their country’s flag on the roof of a hospital in Vysokopillia.
This village in the Kherson region, which had about 4,000 inhabitants before the war, is located south of Krivoy Rog and about 160 kilometers northeast of the occupied city of Kherson.
Shortly before, the head of the Office of the President, Andriy Yermak, posted the photo on the Telegram social network, writing “step by step”.
Ukraine has been attacking Russian troops’ logistics and supply lines in the south for a week, as well as their warehouses, weapons depots and command and control posts, in order to reduce capabilities and prevent Russian supplies.
Zelensky also said that on the eastern front, soldiers from the 63rd battalion of the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade managed to liberate a town in the pro-Russian region of Donetsk, although he did not reveal his name.
The Ukrainian media assure that it is the city of Ozerne, between Sloviansk and Siversk.
The Ukrainian president also assured that the 54th brigade – which is heading towards Lisichansk [Lugansk] and Siversk [Donetsk] – “progressed and recovered in a few moments.”
The Ukrainian president also stressed that “Ukrainian flag and freedom will return to Crimea,” the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
“We will liberate all our lands, all our people,” Zelensky stressed once again in his speech.
Source: TSF
