Zelenskiy: Ukraine takes 3 settlements in south, east
Published: 05:09 PM,Sep 05,2022 | EDITED : 09:09 PM,Sep 05,2022
KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday marked progress in a counter-offensive Ukraine that began last week, thanking his forces for taking two settlements in the south, a third in the east, as well as additional territory in the east of the country.
He did not say precisely where the territories were and provided no timeline except to say that he had received 'good reports' at a meeting on Sunday from his military commanders and head of intelligence.
In his nightly video address, Zelenskiy thanked his forces for liberating a settlement in the eastern Donetsk region, the taking of 'certain heights' also in an eastern area in the Lysychansk-Siversk direction and for liberating two southern settlements.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president's office, earlier on Sunday posted an image of soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag over a village he labelled as being in the southern area that is the main focus of the counter-offensive.
'Vysokopillya. Kherson region. Ukraine. Today,' Tymoshenko wrote in a Facebook post over a photo of three soldiers on rooftops, one of them fixing a Ukrainian flag to a post.
Located just north of the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow invaded and annexed in February and March 2014, the Kherson region was seized by Russian forces early in the current conflict.
Lysychansk was claimed by pro-Russian separatists in the Luhansk region in early July as part of a battle over the coal mining Donbas area in eastern Ukraine, which also includes Siversk.
Meanwhile, Ukraine will receive another $496.3 million in grants from the European Union to provide housing and education to people internally displaced by the war and returnees,the European Commission announced on Monday.
The financial aid, some of which will also support Ukraine's agricultural sector, is part of pledges made at donor conferences and donor events earlier this year.
The announcement came as Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal visits Brussels for the first time since the start of Russia's attack in late February.
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell wrote on Twitter on Monday that Shmyhal's trip to the EU capital amid the war is 'yet another proof of Ukraine's resilience and bravery.'
Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has already received grants and loans worth $5.4 billion from the EU to support the country's 'overall economic, social and financial resilience,' according to European Commission website, in addition in to military assistance worth $2.5 billion. - Reuters/dpa
He did not say precisely where the territories were and provided no timeline except to say that he had received 'good reports' at a meeting on Sunday from his military commanders and head of intelligence.
In his nightly video address, Zelenskiy thanked his forces for liberating a settlement in the eastern Donetsk region, the taking of 'certain heights' also in an eastern area in the Lysychansk-Siversk direction and for liberating two southern settlements.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president's office, earlier on Sunday posted an image of soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag over a village he labelled as being in the southern area that is the main focus of the counter-offensive.
'Vysokopillya. Kherson region. Ukraine. Today,' Tymoshenko wrote in a Facebook post over a photo of three soldiers on rooftops, one of them fixing a Ukrainian flag to a post.
Located just north of the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow invaded and annexed in February and March 2014, the Kherson region was seized by Russian forces early in the current conflict.
Lysychansk was claimed by pro-Russian separatists in the Luhansk region in early July as part of a battle over the coal mining Donbas area in eastern Ukraine, which also includes Siversk.
Meanwhile, Ukraine will receive another $496.3 million in grants from the European Union to provide housing and education to people internally displaced by the war and returnees,the European Commission announced on Monday.
The financial aid, some of which will also support Ukraine's agricultural sector, is part of pledges made at donor conferences and donor events earlier this year.
The announcement came as Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal visits Brussels for the first time since the start of Russia's attack in late February.
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell wrote on Twitter on Monday that Shmyhal's trip to the EU capital amid the war is 'yet another proof of Ukraine's resilience and bravery.'
Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has already received grants and loans worth $5.4 billion from the EU to support the country's 'overall economic, social and financial resilience,' according to European Commission website, in addition in to military assistance worth $2.5 billion. - Reuters/dpa