Ukraine needs to make battlefield advances against Russia “every day” to maintain the support of its allies, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. “Even if it’s one kilometer or 500 meters, but to move forward every day to improve Ukrainian positions, to press the invaders,” he said Sunday in his nightly video address. “That motivates the whole world to help us.”
(Bloomberg) — Ukraine needs to make battlefield advances against Russia “every day” to maintain the support of its allies, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. “Even if it’s one kilometer or 500 meters, but to move forward every day to improve Ukrainian positions, to press the invaders,” he said Sunday in his nightly video address. “That motivates the whole world to help us.”
A Russian missile strike overnight killed six employees and injured 17 other people at a sorting center of Nova Poshta, Ukraine’s largest private mail company, near Kharkiv, according to the Interior Ministry. Kremlin forces fired eight S-300 missiles and several loitering drones from the north and from Crimea at Kharkiv and other regions. Several were shot down by Ukraine’s air defenses.
Recent Russian assaults on Avdiivka “have contributed to a 90% increase in Russian casualties” recorded by Ukraine, according to the UK defense ministry. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Friday that Kremlin troops have incurred “staggering” losses in a campaign to take the Donetsk town. Analysts at the US-based Institute for the Study of War said Ukraine has “inflicted further heavy personnel and equipment losses on troops in the area” in recent days.
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