Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated his nation will “transfer very fastidiously, with out feelings, with out pointless danger,” within the gentle of Russia’s announcement that it’s withdrawing its troops from a part of Kherson area.
In his each day video message, Zelensky stated, “We’re progressively transferring to the south, strengthening our positions. Step-by-step.”
“There may be plenty of pleasure within the data area immediately — and it’s clear why,” Zelensky stated.
“However our feelings should be restrained — at all times throughout the battle. I’ll undoubtedly not feed the enemy with all the main points of our operations. Whether or not within the south, or within the east, or anyplace else — when our result’s achieved, everybody will see it.”
“That is how we are going to make sure the liberation of Kherson, Kakhovka, Donetsk and our different cities,” the Ukrainian president stated.
“Nobody simply leaves if they don’t really feel sturdy. The enemy doesn’t give us items, doesn’t make ‘gestures of goodwill.’ We battle for it,” Zelensky stated.
“And if you battle, you need to perceive that each step is at all times the enemy’s resistance, it’s at all times the lack of lives of our heroes.”
“At the moment, the hardest battles are in Donetsk area, quite a bit is being determined there,” he stated.
Zelensky additionally referred to warnings from Ukrainian officers that Russia may attempt to destroy the big hydro-electric venture and dam on the Dnipro River.
“I wish to warn as soon as once more and individually everybody in Moscow who makes the related selections: any try and blow up Kakhovka hydroelectric energy plant and flood our territory and dewater the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant [which is upstream from the dam] will imply your declaration of battle to the entire world,” he stated.
The Russian basic in charge of forces within the Kremlin’s so-called Particular Army Operation, Sergey Surovikin, has claimed it’s the Ukrainians who’re planning to destroy the dam.
“The implementation of the enemy’s plans to create a flood zone beneath the Kakhovka hydroelectric energy station can result in harmful penalties. That is confirmed by the fixed missile assaults on the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric energy station, in addition to on the spillway gates of this dam,” Surovikin stated Wednesday.
“If the Kyiv regime goes for an extra enhance within the launch of water from reservoirs or a extra highly effective missile assault on the Kakhovka dam, a movement of water will probably be shaped that can create huge flood zones and trigger important casualties among the many civilian inhabitants,” Surovikin stated.
Zelensky additionally addressed ongoing energy outages attributable to waves of Russian missile assaults.
“As of this night, there are stabilization (scheduled) restrictions on electrical energy provide in 15 areas and town of Kyiv. There are not any emergency shutdowns,” he stated.
