Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited troops at a front-line place close to the embattled metropolis of Pokrovsk in japanese Ukraine’s Donetsk area.
In movies shared on social media on Saturday, Zelensky is seen awarding medals to troopers and holding a briefing at a command put up.
Zelenskyy later travelled to the Kharkiv area for one more troop go to and a gathering with the army management.
Pokrovsk has been a goal of Russian assaults for the reason that center of 2024. Whereas some Russian forces have superior to positions south-west of town, they’ve just lately did not make additional territorial positive aspects.
Shortly after data on Zelensky’s go to was launched, no less than three civilians had been killed by Russian shelling in Pokrovsk.
One other individual was injured, the regional governor Vadym Filashkin wrote on Telegram. In keeping with the general public prosecutor’s workplace, the shelling came about within the early afternoon and hit a residential neighbourhood.
The whole seize of Donetsk stays certainly one of Russia’s major army targets in its full-scale invasion, now in its fourth 12 months.
In September 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced the annexation of the Ukrainian areas of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya — though Russian forces solely partially management these areas. Russia had beforehand annexed Crimea in 2014.
At a current assembly with enterprise leaders, Putin reportedly warned that Moscow may lay declare to further Ukrainian territories.
It isn’t clear when precisely Zelensky made his visits to the east. The journey got here forward of Monday’s ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia. US negotiators will meet individually with Ukrainian and Russian delegations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits the command posts of the Pokrovsk tactical group throughout his working go to to the Donetsk area. -/Ukrainian Presidency/dpa
