Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that the situation in the south and the Donbass region remained extremely difficult and reiterated that Russia was gathering forces near the besieged city of Mariupol.
And in a rare sign of internal dissent, Zelensky also said in a video speech that he fired two high-ranking members of the national security service on the grounds that they were traitors.
The Ukrainian president claimed that the Russians are so evil and so eager for destruction that they seem to be from another world, “monsters that burn and plunder, that attack and are bent on killing”.
Russia says it is carrying out a “special operation” to disarm and “denazify” the neighboring country. Moscow denies Kiev’s accusations that Russian forces are attacking civilians.
Zelensky said Ukrainian forces pushed the Russians back from Kiev and Chernihiv – two cities that Moscow announced would no longer be the focus of attacks as they seek to secure the breakaway regions of Donbass and Luhansk in the southeast.
“There will be battles ahead. We still have to go a very difficult road to get everything we want,” he declared.
“The situation in the south and in Donbass remains extremely difficult.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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