Volodymyr Zelensky, visiting Izium, celebrates Ukrainian successes

Three days after the reconquest of town on the finish of a stunning counter-offensive, the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, went on Wednesday, September 14, to Izioum. Hand on coronary heart whereas singing the Ukrainian nationwide anthem, he attended the elevating of the flag on the charred constructing of the city corridor. ” I need to thanks, Zelensky instructed troopers who liberated Izium and the Kharkiv area after six months of Russian navy occupation, for saving our individuals, our hearts, our kids and our future. »

That is the fifth go to outdoors kyiv of the Ukrainian president, who communicates primarily together with his fellow residents, for the reason that outbreak of the warfare, on February 24, by a video message posted every night on social networks. He first went to Boucha (a suburb of kyiv) on April 4 to mark the Ukrainian capital’s 5 weeks of fierce resistance and to honor the victims of warfare crimes perpetrated by the Russian military within the occupied suburbs. . On Might 29, the president went to Kharkiv, the place a Ukrainian counter-offensive was registering restricted preliminary successes. He then stopped on the Donbass fronts of Lysytchansk and Soledar on June 5, at one of many harshest moments of the battle, in addition to at Zaporizhia to go to refugees from conquered Mariupol. After Odessa and Mykolaiv (June 18), on this so strategic South for Ukraine, Wednesday’s go to to Kharkiv and Izium is of a unique nature: it marks the primary dazzling navy victory of the Ukrainian military. .

In six days, from September 6 to 11, the Russian military was decimated in locations, and in others needed to flee in haste. Past Izioum, a necessary metropolis for the group of the Russian system, it’s a complete area, that of Kharkiv, which was gained over the enemy forces in a couple of days. For Moscow, it’s one other bitter failure after its defeat round kyiv (in April) and its incapability to overthrow Mr. Zelensky and his authorities, in addition to its preliminary setbacks round Kharkiv. However this time there was added a wind of panic which allowed the Ukrainian forces to overcome hundreds of sq. kilometres, to kill or take prisoner no less than lots of of Russian troopers, and to seize tanks and armored autos , anti-aircraft weapons, digital warfare techniques, in addition to packing containers of shells and ammunition in massive portions. A wind of panic such because it had this time an echo so far as Moscow, together with on public tv channels, nonetheless tightly managed.

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