Russia has stepped up attacks on the southern and eastern fronts of the Ukraine war, forcing civilians to flee for bomb shelters, as Volodymyr Zelensky said that the situation was only getting more difficult for his citizens.
Vladimir Putin’s forces rained artillery, mortar and tank fire in Donetsk last night, in a visible escalation of their offensive in the eastern region which has witnessed fierce fighting this month.
“The situation at the front is difficult. Despite extremely large losses, the occupiers are still trying to advance in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv,” Mr Zelensky said in his nightly address, and warned that Russian forces were planning something in the south, where they have continued to fire on Kherson city after evacuating east.
But he added that this year, Moscow will “lose a hundred thousand of its soldiers killed and only God knows how many mercenaries.”
His words came after his wife Olena Zelenska travelled to the UK, where she told British parliamentarians it was their duty to “keep the world awake” to the horrors of the war.
