From that perspective, unfortunately, we did not achieve the desired results,” Mr Zelenskiy said of operations that began in June with the aim of splitting Russian forces in southeastern Ukraine and possibly severing the land link between Russia and Crimea on the Black Sea, which Moscow annexed in 2014. READ MORE“We have a new phase of war… Winter as a whole is a new phase of war,” Mr Zelenskiy said after visiting troops in the eastern Kharkiv region. He held talks with his military commanders about fortifying Ukrainian positions along the 1,000km front line in eastern and southeastern Ukraine and in northern regions bordering Russia and its ally Belarus, from where attacks have also been launched. For more than a year, Western allies did not give Ukraine missiles that could strike the area. Mr Zelenskiy said Ukraine needed to “boost and accelerate the construction of structures” and “discussed the mobilisation of resources, the motivation of private business in this work, and financing.

Source: The Irish Times December 02, 2023 19:06 UTC