President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine would win back all the cities it had lost to Russia, including Severodonetsk, which finally fell to Moscow's forces on Saturday after weeks of brutal fighting:
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had been hit by 45 Russian missiles and rockets over the previous 24 hours, which he described as a cynical but doomed attempt by Russia to break his people's spirits.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday said Ukraine would win back all the cities it had lost to Russia, including Severodonetsk, and admitted the war was becoming tough to handle emotionally.
"At this stage of the war it's spiritually difficult, emotionally difficult ... we don't have a sense of how long it will last, how many more blows, losses and efforts will be needed before we see victory is on the horizon," he said. On Saturday, Severodonetsk's mayor said the city was "fully occupied" by the Russian army. "The city has been fully occupied by the Russians," Oleksandr Striuk said.
"In the coming months, we will transfer to Belarus Iskander-M tactical missile systems, which can use ballistic or cruise missiles, in their conventional and nuclear versions," Mr Putin said in a broadcast on Russian television at the start of his meeting with Lukashenko in Saint Petersburg.Gina Rinehart, Stan Grant, Ita Buttrose among 121 Australian citizens sanctioned by Russia
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