MYKOLAIV, Ukraine/KYIV - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged Russian troops to flee for their lives as his forces launched an offensive near the city of Kherson, saying Ukraine's military were taking back their territory though Russia said the assault had failed. Ukraine's offensive in the south comes after weeks of a stalemate in a war that has killed thousands,...
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine/KYIV - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged Russian troops to flee for their lives as his forces launched an offensive near the city of Kherson, saying Ukraine's military were taking back their territory though Russia said the assault had failed.
Zelenskiy, in his nightly address late on Monday, vowed that Ukrainian troops would chase the Russian army "to the border"."Ukraine is taking back its own," Zelenskiy said. Britain's defence ministry said Ukrainian forces had increased their artillery fire across the south and their long-range precision strikes were disrupting Russian resupplies.
A Reuters correspondent reported a strike hit a family home directly next to a school, killing one woman. The conflict, the biggest attack on a European state since 1945, has largely settled into a war of attrition, mainly in the south and east, marked by artillery bombardments and air strikes. Russia captured swathes of the south early on.The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine's south, captured by Russian troops in March but still manned by Ukrainian staff, has been a hotspot in the conflict with both sides trading blame for shelling in the vicinity.
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