in Izioum reconquered, Zelensky guarantees victory over Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday promised “victory” to his individuals from the strategic city of Izium, recaptured from the Russians throughout a shock counter-offensive. That is the primary journey of the top of state to the Kharkiv area because the liberation of the world this month, virtually solely reconquered by his forces in only 15 days.

Izioum, a metropolis of practically 50,000 inhabitants earlier than the warfare, had been the topic of lethal combating within the spring earlier than being taken by the Russians who made it a strategic node for the provision of their troops. Its reconquest by kyiv is subsequently a setback for the Russian military, which has retreated to Donetsk, an space below Kremlin management since 2014.

“We’re solely shifting in a single route, ahead, in the direction of victory,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram. Surrounded by armed bodyguards, the president in khaki wore a “Ukraine or demise” patch on his shoulder, in line with photographs from the presidency.

In a video, he in contrast the destruction of Izium to that of Boutcha, a city close to kyiv from which Russian forces withdrew within the spring, abandoning the our bodies of coldly executed civilians. Abuses that Moscow denies having dedicated.

Lesser features in Kherson

Ukraine has introduced that it has taken again hundreds of sq. kilometers within the East and South from the Russians in September alone. This lightning counter-offensive enabled the reconquest of virtually your entire Kharkiv area, bordering Russia, particularly the cities of Balakliïa, Koupiansk and Izioum.

Backed by Western arms deliveries, Ukraine is conducting a parallel counter-offensive within the south of the nation, within the occupied area of Kherson, however the features are lower than within the northeast.