President Zelensky pays a go to to Snake Island as Ukraine conflict enters five hundredth day
As the persevering with battle in Ukraine enters its five hundredth day, Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video to social media displaying his journey to an island that has come to signify Ukrainian resistance.
Ukrainian troopers stationed on Snake Island attracted discover overseas within the early days of the battle once they disobeyed a Russian warship’s order to submit.
The Black Sea island was initially taken over by Russia, however Ukraine later recovered it.
The president of Ukraine describes Snake Island as a “place of victory” that may by no means be retaken within the video.
He emphasises that this demonstrates Ukraine‘s resolve to reclaim each sq. inch of its territory that Russia has been occupying because the conflict’s begin in February 2022.
Speaking from Snake Island, Zelensky honoured the Ukrainian troopers who fought for the island and all different defenders of the nation, saying that reclaiming management of the island “is a great proof that Ukraine will regain every bit of its territory.”
“I want to thank — from here, from this place of victory — each of our soldiers for these 500 days,” Zelensky stated. “Thank you to everyone who fights for Ukraine!”
It was unclear when the video was filmed. Zelensky was in Turkey on Saturday.
Russian forces took management of the tiny stone island on February 24, 2022, the day Moscow launched its invasion, within the obvious hope of utilizing it as a staging floor for an assault on Odesa, Ukraine’s greatest port and the headquarters of its navy.
The island took on legendary significance for Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion, when Ukrainian troops there reportedly obtained a requirement from a Russian warship to give up or be bombed. The reply supposedly got here again, “Go (expletive) yourself.”
The island’s Ukrainian defenders had been captured by the Russians however later freed as a part of a prisoner alternate.
After the island was taken, the Ukrainian army closely bombarded the small Russian garrison there, forcing the Russians to drag again on June 30, 2022.
The Russian retreat decreased the specter of a seaborne Russian assault on Odesa and helped pave the best way for a deal to renew Ukrainian grain exports.
“Let the liberty that every one our heroes of various occasions needed for Ukraine and that have to be gained proper now be a tribute to all those that gave their lives for Ukraine,” Zelensky said. “We will definitely win!”
Intense battles continued to rage Saturday in the country’s east and south as Ukrainian forces pressed their attacks against multi-layered Russian defences in the initial stages of their counteroffensive.
Ukraine‘s interior ministry said that a Russian rocket strike on the town of Lyman killed eight civilians and wounded 13 others early Saturday.
The island’s Ukrainian defenders were captured by the Russians but later freed as part of a prisoner exchange. After the island was taken, the Ukrainian military heavily bombarded the small Russian garrison there, forcing the Russians to pull back on June 30, 2022. The Russian retreat reduced the threat of a seaborne Russian attack on Odesa and helped pave the way for a deal to resume Ukrainian grain exports.
“Let the freedom that all our heroes of different times wanted for Ukraine and that have to be gained proper now be a tribute to all those that gave their lives for Ukraine,” Zelensky stated. “We will definitely win!”
Intense battles continued to rage Saturday within the nation’s east and south as Ukrainian forces pressed their assaults towards multi-layered Russian defenses within the preliminary levels of their counteroffensive.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the jap Donetsk area, posted pictures displaying a number of the lifeless, together with a physique mendacity below a bicycle and physique fragments on the pavement subsequent to a broken car, saying that “the Russian terrorists are continuing to strike civilians in Donetsk.”
A non-public residence, a store and some vehicles had been broken within the assault on Lyman, which sits only a few miles from the frontline, the place Russian troops have lately intensified combating within the forests of Kreminna.
The UK Ministry of Defence stated in its newest intelligence replace that the jap city of Bakhmut that was captured by the Russians in May has seen a number of the most intense combating alongside the entrance over the last week.