Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued another defiant note upon returning to his country’s capital on Friday after his wartime visit to the United States, saying his forces were “working towards victory” even as Russia launched new strikes across the country.
Zelenskyy posted on his Telegram account that he was in his office in Kyiv after his trip to the United States that secured a new $1.8 billion military aid package, and promised that ” we will overcome everything”.
Zelenksyy’s return comes amid relentless Russian artillery, rocket and mortar fire as well as airstrikes on the eastern and southern fronts and elsewhere in Ukraine.
Moscow repeated that there would be no end to the war until its military objectives were achieved.
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the war would end at the negotiating table once the “special military operation” achieved “the goals the Russian Federation has set itself”, adding that “significant progress have been achieved in the demilitarization of Ukraine”.
Kremlin spokesman says no Ukrainian peace plan can succeed without taking into account ‘today’s realities that cannot be ignored’, a reference to Moscow’s demand that Ukraine recognize sovereignty of Russia on the Crimean Peninsula, which was annexed in 2014, as well as other territorial gains.
Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin would visit an arms factory in Tula, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) south of Moscow, on Friday and chair a meeting on the country’s arms industry there.
Ukraine’s military says Russian forces fired multiple rocket launchers “more than 70 times” into Ukrainian territory overnight, as heavy fighting raged around the town of Bakhmut in eastern Donetsk region , where regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said four people were killed and seven others. injured in the last day.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that Bakhmut and Lyman in the neighboring Luhansk region as well as the front line between Luhansk and Kharkiv regions suffered the brunt of the Russian strikes, but did not specified to what extent.
In the Kherson region, as many as 61 Russian rocket, artillery and mortar strikes over the past 24 hours have killed one person and injured two others.
Kherson regional governor Yaroslav Yanushevych posted on Telegram that Russian forces attacked from entrenched positions on the right bank of the Dnieper, hitting educational institutions, apartment buildings and private homes.
In the eastern regions of Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk, the Ukrainian military said Russia launched six missile strikes and as many air attacks against civilian targets while Ukrainian forces repelled Russian ground attacks on or near them. of 19 settlements in the north and east.
Russian shelling also hit a district hospital overnight in the town of Volchansk in the northeastern Kharkiv region, injuring five people, according to local governor Oleh Syniehubov.
Syniehubov posted on Telegram that the four men and one woman were all in “moderate condition”.
Zelenskyy posted on his Telegram account that he was in his office in Kyiv after his trip to the United States that secured a new $1.8 billion military aid package, and promised that ” we will overcome everything”.
Zelenksyy’s return comes amid relentless Russian artillery, rocket and mortar fire as well as airstrikes on the eastern and southern fronts and elsewhere in Ukraine.
Moscow repeated that there would be no end to the war until its military objectives were achieved.
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the war would end at the negotiating table once the “special military operation” achieved “the goals the Russian Federation has set itself”, adding that “significant progress have been achieved in the demilitarization of Ukraine”.
Kremlin spokesman says no Ukrainian peace plan can succeed without taking into account ‘today’s realities that cannot be ignored’, a reference to Moscow’s demand that Ukraine recognize sovereignty of Russia on the Crimean Peninsula, which was annexed in 2014, as well as other territorial gains.
Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin would visit an arms factory in Tula, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) south of Moscow, on Friday and chair a meeting on the country’s arms industry there.
Ukraine’s military says Russian forces fired multiple rocket launchers “more than 70 times” into Ukrainian territory overnight, as heavy fighting raged around the town of Bakhmut in eastern Donetsk region , where regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said four people were killed and seven others. injured in the last day.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that Bakhmut and Lyman in the neighboring Luhansk region as well as the front line between Luhansk and Kharkiv regions suffered the brunt of the Russian strikes, but did not specified to what extent.
In the Kherson region, as many as 61 Russian rocket, artillery and mortar strikes over the past 24 hours have killed one person and injured two others.
Kherson regional governor Yaroslav Yanushevych posted on Telegram that Russian forces attacked from entrenched positions on the right bank of the Dnieper, hitting educational institutions, apartment buildings and private homes.
In the eastern regions of Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk, the Ukrainian military said Russia launched six missile strikes and as many air attacks against civilian targets while Ukrainian forces repelled Russian ground attacks on or near them. of 19 settlements in the north and east.
Russian shelling also hit a district hospital overnight in the town of Volchansk in the northeastern Kharkiv region, injuring five people, according to local governor Oleh Syniehubov.
Syniehubov posted on Telegram that the four men and one woman were all in “moderate condition”.
