Zelensky says counteroffensive 'taking place' as Trudeau visits KyivUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shake hands after talks in KyivKYIV (UKRAINE) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that counteroffensive action was underway as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Kyiv and accused Russia over flooding from the breached Kakhovka dam. "Counteroffensive and defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine: at which stage I will not talk in detail," Zelensky said at a joint press conference in Kyiv with Trudeau. Zelensky commented after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Kyiv's long-expected counteroffensive was already failing. It is important that Russia always feels this: that they do not have long left, in my opinion," Zelensky said. He also visited an open-air exhibition featuring destroyed Russian military vehicles.