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This news could bring relief to people in Ukraine who are waiting since long for the Russia-Ukraine War to get over and in their favour.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday visited the east Ukraine city of Izyum, one of the largest cities recently recaptured from Russia. Zelensky declared that it was important for the area to be reclaimed by soldiers, who are welcomed by the population. “I see how people meet them, in what a sensitive moment,” he said.
Russian forces left the war-scarred city of Izyum last week as Ukraine pressed forward in a sweeping counteroffensive that has reclaimed vast swaths of territory in the country’s northeastern Kharkiv region in a matter of days.
The military in social media statement said Zelensky and military officials took part in a ‘ceremony’ raising the Ukrainian flag over the captured city, which was key for Russia’s ambitions to capture the Donbas region. The war is going on Since February 24 and this is first news that goes on to say Ukraine still has the strength.
Pictures showed the Ukrainian leader wearing dark-green and flanked by guards as he was taking selfies with soldiers and meeting troops at a flag-rising ceremony. Ukraine has claimed sweeping successes in the northeastern Kharkiv region that borders Russia in recent days and also claims to have clawed back territory along a southern front near the Kherson region on the Black Sea.
Moscow said that its forces were hitting back on areas recaptured in Kharkiv with massive strikes, claiming to have inflicted losses on Ukrainian military hardware and servicemen. Russia also claimed to have captured dozens of Ukrainian servicemen in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
The Ukrainian official in charge of the eastern Donetsk region, said Russian forces had attacked the entire frontline region over the past 24 hours. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the Donetsk governor, said one civilian had been killed and again urged all others to leave, describing the order as a matter of life and death.
