Weapons supplied by the West are beginning to have an impact on the war in Ukraine, said Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Ukrainian fighters are making “tangible attacks” on Russian logistical targets, the president revealed in his nightly video message, adding that the attacks affected Moscow’s offensive potential.
He said: “Western artillery, the weapons we received from our partners, started working very hard.
“Their accuracy is exactly what is needed. Our defenders inflict very notable attacks on depots and other points that are important to the logistics of the occupiers, and this significantly reduces the offensive potential of the Russian army.
“Occupant losses will only increase each week, as will the difficulty in supplying them.”
Key developments:
• Ukraine’s flag flies over Snake Island again • Western artillery works “very powerfully,” says President Zelenskyy • Representatives of G20 countries, including Russia, gather in Bali • Intense drums at the front in Donetsk, but no progress by either side, says the UK Ministry of Defense • Ukraine considers the “betrayal” is that giving up the territory “is not an option”, says the mayor of Kyiv
It comes after Sky News reported on how Ukrainian military social media was increasingly reporting on the use of the HIMAR system, a U.S.-made and supplied multiple rocket launcher that analysts said had been used during the week to target Russian forces.
Kyiv has repeatedly called on the West to send more weapons to repel the Russian invasion.
Zelenskyy said his forces were advancing in various tactical directions – particularly in the south, in the Kherson region, in the Zaporizhzhia region – and that the Ukrainians “will not give up our land.”
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian flag has been hoisted on Snake Island in the Black Sea after defense forces released it from Russian troops.
The colors blue and yellow hover once again over the strategic island, which has been in the spotlight many times during the war, especially when a Russian warship was told to “go to shit “when he demanded that Ukrainian troops surrender soon. in the conflict.
In a reference to that episode (now a feature of Ukrainian stamps), the flag had a message written on the Russian warship that said the island was Ukrainian and signed by the head of the Odessa region, Maxim Marchenko.
Image: Image: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
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The UK Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday that heavy bombing continued at the front in Donetsk, but that neither side had made any progress.
The intelligence update said it was believed the Russian forces involved in last week’s gains were “reconstituting”.
It comes when G20 foreign ministers meet on the Indonesian island of Bali for talks that will be dominated by the conflict in Ukraine, despite an agenda focused on global cooperation and food and energy security.
It is understood to be the first time Russian top diplomat Sergei Lavrov has met with many of the G20 leaders since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
The G20 includes Western countries that have accused Moscow of war crimes in Ukraine and countries such as China, India and South Africa that support Russia or have abstained from UN votes calling for opposition movements. se to Russian aggression.
Many of its members oppose sanctions imposed by the West.
Germany’s foreign minister said G7 countries would coordinate their response to Mr. Lavrov in Bali.