Russia-Ukraine War: Sievierodonetsk finally fell to Moscow’s forces on Friday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Ukraine would regain all the cities it lost to Russia, including Sievierodonetsk, and admitted the war was becoming emotionally difficult to handle.
In a nightly video speech, he also said Ukraine had been hit by 45 Russian missiles and missiles in the past 24 hours, which he described as a cynical but doomed attempt to break the spirits of his people.
“That’s why we get all our cities – Sievierodonetsk, Donetsk, Luhansk – all back,” he said.
It was the only time in the speech that he mentioned Sievierodonetsk, which earlier in the day finally fell to Moscow’s forces after weeks of brutal fighting.
“At this stage of the war it is spiritually difficult, emotionally difficult … we have no idea how long it will take, how much more blows, losses and efforts will be needed before we see victory on the horizon,” he said.
The relentless missile strikes confirmed that sanctions against Russia were not enough to help Ukraine, which needed more weapons, he said.
“The air defense systems — the modern systems that our partners have — shouldn’t be on training grounds or in storage, but in Ukraine, where they are needed now, they need more than anywhere else in the world,” he said.
