Volodimir Zelensky said Friday that the Ukrainian forces faced fierce fights around the city of Pokrovsk, in the east of the country, a strategic logistics and a railway node for kyiv, where the only coca coca mine of Ukraine is located.
During his daily speech, the Ukrainian president said that the attention of Ukrainian staff focused on Pokrovsk. “All operational instructions have been covered, and special attention (it has been paid) Pokrovsk. It is (the city) that receives most attention,” he said.
The Ukrainian forces “continue to act” in the border areas in the north of the Soumy region, added Volodimir Zelensky.
The commander, in the main of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrsky estimated on the telegram that Pokrovsk and five other sectors were one of the frontal areas where the situation was the most difficult.
“The death of a person was confirmed”
A person was killed in Dnipro, in eastern Ukraine, in Russian attacks that attacked several regions of the country on Saturday, according to Ukrainian officials.
“The death of a person was confirmed” in “a high -end skyscraper,” announced the mayor of Dnipro, Borys Filatov, in Telegram. He deplored the “lack of shelters” while calling the population not to “remain on the high floors” during the bombing.
The governor of the Jharkiv region, in Northeast, reported three injured in Zmiiv bombing.
A little earlier, the mayor of Kharkiv Igor Terekhov had indicated, in Telegram, that his city was “the goal of a combined attack for almost three hours.” “The enemy has used several types of guided bomb weapons, ballistic missiles and suicidal drones,” he added.
In Zaporijjia (South), several fires were observed in the region after the Russian attacks and one of these strikes affected a residential building, without making victims according to the initial information, said his governor Ivan Fedorov.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said Friday that the discussions with Moscow at a meeting with Vladimir Putin “began”, the Kremlin judged that such an interview was “unlikely” in the next 30 days.
Meetings between the two parties, with radically different applications, so far give few results.
Moscow states that Kyiv gives him four partially occupied regions, in addition to Crimea attached in 2014, and that Ukraine formally renounces to join NATO.
Unacceptable conditions for Ukraine that require the complete withdrawal of the Russian troops of their western territory and guarantees, including the search for weapons deliveries and the deployment of a European contingent, which is opposed to Moscow.
Source: BFM TV
