Zelensky says Ukraine ‘preparing good news’ in fight against Russia - The Hill

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky connected Wednesday said determination would soon beryllium “good news” for Ukraine arsenic dense warring with Russia continues successful the confederate and eastbound regions of the country.

Zelensky said successful an code that Ukrainian forces were holding the enactment and pushing backmost against Russian troops successful cardinal battles.

“Generally, we are strengthening our positions each implicit the frontline, reducing the invaders’ capabilities, destroying their logistics, and preparing bully quality for Ukraine,” Zelensky said.

Much of the heaviest warring is taking spot astir the towns of Avdiivka and Bakhmut successful the eastbound Donetsk region.

Ukraine has repelled ongoing attacks from Russian troops successful those towns and others successful the Donbas, according to an update from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Russia has hammered cities successful the Donbas with rocket strikes, targeting civilian infrastructure and housing. The relentless strikes are portion of an aerial onslaught employed by Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his mounting losses successful the war.

On Wednesday, Zelensky noted the rocket attacks and said, “Our soldiers who clasp positions successful these directions successful Donetsk portion are simply heroes.”

“The craziness of the Russian bid is present astir disposable there: time aft time for months, they thrust radical determination to death, ore the maximum powerfulness of artillery strikes there,” the Ukrainian person said his address.

In the confederate portion of Kherson, Ukrainian troops are pushing guardant against a crumbling Russian line, according to an update this week from the Warsaw-based Centre for Eastern Studies. But Ukrainian forces are facing stiff absorption successful the towns of Davydiv Brid and Dudchany.

Russia is reportedly bracing for a conflict implicit the determination superior of Kherson, with Ukraine looking to instrumentality backmost the archetypal large metropolis captured by Russian forces astatine the commencement of the warfare 8 months ago.

Ukraine has won a fig of decisive victories against Russia aft its invasion, pushing invading troops backmost from the occidental portion of the state implicit the outpouring and past launching a monolithic counterattack taking backmost swaths of the northeast and the southbound past month.

Zelensky this week said Ukraine volition yet instrumentality backmost the Crimean Peninsula and each the territory Putin has illegally annexed.