Zelensky says ‘Russian society has raised a second Hitler’ in attack on Putin
Heavy weapons supplied by the West in the fierce battle raging outside Bakhmut are inflicting “hell” on Russian enemy lines, Ukrainian command has told Reuters.
“They hate our hardware”, said Unit commander Oleksandr. “That’s what we gather from our intercepts. We hear that we keep giving them hell and they keep wondering how much ammunition we have left.”
The news comes as Kyiv’s army has broken through Russian lines in the Zaporizhzhia region, the general leading the Southern counteroffensive told CNN on Friday.
Meanwhile, at least one Ukrainian missile hit the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea on Friday.
Ukraine says 'senior' Russian naval officers were killed in the headquarters attack.
Meanwhile, Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday dismissed the West as an “empire of lies” and said the latest U.N. proposals to revive the Black Sea grain initiative would not fly because they do not deliver on promises made to Moscow.
Lavrov spoke after a week of intense global diplomacy at the annual gathering of world leaders at U.N. headquarters in New York where Ukraine and its Western allies sought to drum up support for Kyiv as it fights against Russia’s invasion.
