President Zelenskyy: the weeks ahead will be difficult

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022, 23:48

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy predicts that the next few weeks of the war will be difficult.

Source: President's address

Quote: "The Russian occupiers are trying very hard to show that they will not give up the occupied areas of Kharkiv Oblast and they will not give up the Kherson region, the occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region or Donbas.

The next few weeks of war will be difficult, and we must be aware of that. But we have no alternative but to fight and win, to liberate our land and our people. Because what the occupiers want to take away from us is not just something, but everything we have, including the right for Ukrainians to live."

Details: According to Zelenskyy, the worst fighting situation is now in Donbas, where the Russians have been conducting a "massacre".

"Bakhmut, Popasna, Sievierodonetsk -  the occupiers have concentrated the greatest activity so far on these fronts. They have been conducting a massacre there and are trying to destroy every living thing, literally. No one has destroyed Donbas the way the Russian military is doing now", he said.

The President said that since 24 February, the Russian army has launched 1,474 missile strikes on Ukraine, using 2,275 different missiles. The vast majority hit civilian structures. In less than three months, there have been more than 3,000 air strikes by Russian planes and helicopters.