As the beginning of a new phase, the president of Ukraine visits war zones

The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky visited to the southern Kherson region on Thursday, which was recaptured from the forces of the Russian government.  This was the third time in two days that Zelensky had visited areas that had been hardest hit by Russia’s war, and it came as a senior Kyiv commander hinted that a developing Ukrainian counteroffensive could come “extremely shortly.”

The capital of the Kherson region, also known as Kherson, was retaken by Ukraine at the end of last year after being overtaken by Russian occupiers in the weeks that followed the start of Moscow’s massive invasion more than a year earlier. The front line in the area, which is still partly occupied, is currently defined by the Dnieper River.

President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Kherson, according to his office, where he met with local security officials and examined infrastructure that had been harmed by Russian airstrikes.

The second-largest city in Ukraine, Kharkiv, is located in northeastern Ukraine, and Mr. Zelensky visited there on Wednesday. In September of last year, as part of the same month-long military campaign that liberated Kherson, Ukrainian forces retook Kharkiv from the Russians.

He also talked with military in the eastern Donetsk region, visiting a hospital to see injured soldiers and presenting state medals to Bakhmut’s defenders, a destroyed city that has come to represent Ukraine’s tenacious resistance to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s objectives.

Now that its Western allies are beginning to supply Ukraine with modern weapons, including tanks, they are also instructing Ukrainian troops on how to use them.

Russian troops have been consolidating their positions in the four regions of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kherson  that Moscow illegitimately annexed in September.  Putin has stated his desire to be in charge there.

Russian soldiers are “exhausting themselves” in their tough attempt to seize Bakhmut, according to Ukraine’s commander of the ground forces, providing Kyiv a window for a counterattack.

While this has been happening, Russia has continued to launch long-range attacks using missiles, artillery, and drones. Ukraine’s emergency services stated that nine people had died as a result of a Russian drone attack on a high school and dorms on Wednesday. A nine-story flat building in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia was also attacked by Russian forces on Wednesday, resulting in at least one fatality.

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