Zelensky: We’re dealing with absolute evil, and the strategic initiative is ours

The front stretched for more than 2.5 thousand kilometers, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine retain a strategic initiative

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, stated this on the Telegram channel, Rubryka reports.

"We are dealing with absolute evil. And we have no choice but to move on.

Free our entire territory.

Oust the occupiers from all our regions.

And although now the width of our front is already more than 2.5 thousand kilometers, it seems that the strategic initiative is still ours," the head of state said.

Zelensky shared photos from the front and the destroyed cities of Ukraine.

As reported by Rubryka, People's Deputy from the Servant of the People party, Mariana Bezuhla, said that recently President Volodymyr Zelensky secretly visited Lysychansk, Luhansk region.

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Heavy fighting continues in Ukraine's East and South. The East's key locations are under constant shelling from russian forces, with heavy losses both from russian and Ukrainian sides. Significant quantities of russian military equipment have also been destroyed. The UK Ministry of Defense says russia is likely to have suffered devastating losses among its middle and junior-ranking officers.

The latest development at the frontline shows that russia still seeks to capture the city of Sievierodonetsk in the Luhansk region to reach the administrative borders. russia has made slow but significant progress in the East and now controls over 90% of the Luhansk region. russian troops also continue to attack Ukrainian positions north of Kharkiv to stop Ukraine's counteroffensive to the border.

Experts report that Mariupol is at risk of a major cholera outbreak in the south. Ukrainian forces counterattack and advance in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. russian forces initially made rapid gains in the south, with their main goal to create a land corridor between Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, and areas held by russian-backed Donetsk and Luhansk "pseudo-republics." But firm resistance from Ukrainian forces near Mykolaiv in the west and Mariupol significantly slowed russian advances.