On the 110th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy promises “liberation” to the Ukrainian people. “No one knows today how long our path to victory will take. But the vast majority of people know that this is our path. This is how this war will end. Let’s rebuild everything that was destroyed by the invaders. From Volnovakha to Chortkiv. Because this is Ukraine,” he says in a new video posted Monday night.
“The enemy has been driven out of the Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions. A large part of the Kharkiv region was liberated. The invasion of southern Ukraine was stopped. Yes, they still want to destroy Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia and the cities of the Dnipropetrovsk region. They still have enough strength to fire towards Zelenodolsk and Hulyaipole. Odessa remains a target for the Russian fleet. But dozens of attempted attacks by the Russian army have already taken place here in the south. And thanks to our counter-offensive, some communities in the Kherson region have already been liberated,” the Ukrainian president stressed in the letter.
Pointing out that in the Donbass battles, which “will undoubtedly go down in military history as some of the most brutal battles fought in Europe and in all of Europe,” the Ukrainian army “beat” the Russian “despite Russia’s significant advantage in terms of equipment and artillery”. ”, Zelensky asked international partners for more weapons.
“The price of this battle is too high. The Scarer And we draw the attention of our partners on a daily basis to the fact that only a significant amount of modern artillery will ensure that we have the upper hand and finally succeed in putting an end to Russian torture in the Ukrainian Donbass.”
“We are dealing with absolute evil. And we have no choice but to continue. Liberate all our territory. Wipe out invaders from all our regions. And even though we have more than 2,500 kilometers to go, it seems that the strategic initiative is still ours.”
Addressing the Ukrainian people in the Russian-occupied regions, Zelensky assures that the Ukrainian army will eventually reach all of them. “We will go to all our cities, to all our towns, that still do not have our flag in the administrative buildings. Although there are many Ukrainian flags there, on people’s houses. And we have seen them when people protest against invaders. And we will see them again, everywhere when we return.”
“We will enter Kherson. And ordinary Khersonians will see our army on the streets of the city. The failure of the invaders, who tried to celebrate the so-called Day of Russia, only proves that Kherson is a Ukrainian city. And the people of Kherson will only celebrate the Ukrainian holidays.”
He still promises to get to Melitopol. And give back to the inhabitants “the opportunity to live without fear”. “And by the way, all those who are now threatening to take land from farmers in Melitopol and other regions of Zaporizhzhia will most likely end up on that land themselves.”
It also guarantees that Mariupol will be “liberated for the third time”, after 1943 and 2014. “On this day in 2014, thanks to the courage of our Azov and other units, Mariupol was liberated for the second time. Freed from the militants who, at the time, did not quite know where the Russian state was sending them. But now they have seen it all. They saw Mariupol burn. They saw why the Russians went there. But we will not allow them to kill that city. We’ll get it back.”
And he emphasizes again: “We just need enough weapons. Our partners have them in sufficient quantities. And we work every day for the political will to give us these weapons.”
Zelensky also claims that “the invaders are trying to keep people in the dark about what is happening in Ukraine and how we are trying to liberate our territory”, and that in some areas “the invaders are deliberately preventing the restoration of the supply of electricity. Our television is being turned off. They have closed the exits and are not leaving the humanitarian corridors open so that we can at least get essential goods and medicines to people.”
The Ukrainian president ends the video with an appeal. “I ask everyone to have the opportunity to communicate with the people of the occupied south, in Donbass, in Kharkiv. Tell them the truth. Tell them there will be release. Say it in Kyrylivka, Henichesk, Berdyansk, Manhush. Say it in Horlivka, Donetsk, Luhansk. Tell everyone in Kharkiv that they are still forced to see the Russian flag on our Ukrainian land. Tell them that the Ukrainian army will definitely arrive.
And a warning. “Of course we will also liberate our Crimea. And all the Russian officers who took possession of our precious Crimea will remember: in this land there will be no peace.”
Source: Observadora
