He expressed gratitude to the Ukrainian military who “” achieve results and destroy the invaders “primarily in the areas of Dobropol and Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, as well as Kupyansk of the Kharkov region.
“The total losses of Russians are only within the limits of our Dobropol counterattack operation, and most of them are irretrievable losses. There, the Russians wanted to commit one of the significant breakthroughs along the front, but our forces are neutralized. And this is important,” Zelensky emphasized. “Putin is still talking to the leaders who are still talking to him when they say that the occupation contingent says that the occupation contingent is said to him Reaches some of their goals. “
According to Zelensky, the invaders “not the first year” are forced to come up with “more and more reasons”, why the terms that have determined them are constantly transferred.
“And it is significant that, despite everything that Russia is saying in the world, they still meet only new attempts at storms and new blows to Ukrainian cities, in our infrastructure. They are really sick with war, and whether it is possible to cure them is a question,” the president noted.
The only thing that the “Russian virus of war” can force to stop is “strength, strong decisions, strong help”, Zelensky said.
“We are talking with America about specific things that can suspend this war. There are recipes. It is important that what we are negotiated about,” the Ukrainian president summed up.
Context
On August 29, Zelensky reported that in the Pokrovsky direction the concentration of the Russian military is about 100 thousand people and that they are preparing offensive actions.
On September 12, Zelensky stated that the Russian offensive operation on the Sumy was completely disrupted. According to him, the battles in the border of the Sumy region continue, but the Russian group in the Sumy direction “lost the offensive opportunities as a result of the losses incurred.” Defenders are also actively opposing Russian assaults in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya regions.
He later clarified that the Ukrainian defenders recently managed to disrupt two Russian offenses at the front, and announced the information relative to another. “The Russians went worse than they expected,” the president emphasized.
On September 18, Zelensky announced the Ukrainian counterattack in the area of Pokrovsk and Dobropol, Donetsk region.
From the beginning of the Dobropol counterattack operation, the defense forces of Ukraine have already released 168.8 km² of territory, another 187.7 km² was cleaned from Russian sabotage groups, and informed Zelensky on September 26.
