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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy visited a front-line city along the Black Sea on Saturday to meet soldiers and hear the latest information about the region.
Zelenskyy wore his trademark khaki T-shirt when he handed out medals to soldiers fighting to prevent Russian troops from invading the strategically important port cities of Mykolaiv and Odessa.
Russian officials said their purpose was to take full control of the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine.
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Russian troops are making profits in the east, but Ukrainian troops have so far prevented them from making the same advance along the Black Sea.
Russia has been trying the Ukrainian coastline since the invasion began nearly four months ago. Subsequent standoffs in the Black Sea caused a global food crisis as grain exports remained trapped in Ukrainian storage facilities.
Zelenskyy awarded Odesa’s Interior Ministry officials for “heroic” service, saying that their continued survival is paramount to Ukraine’s success.
“It’s important that you are alive. As long as you are alive, there is a strong Ukrainian wall that protects our country,” he added.
While Ukrainian troops detained Russian troops in the southern bay, Moscow made greater progress in the eastern Donbas region, where brutal battles continued in the strategically important city of Sibelodnetsk.
Nearly 570 civilians remain trapped in a chemical plant in western Luhansk while Russian troops are fighting for full control of it.
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Russian troops destroyed the last remaining bridge between Sieviero Donetsk and western Ukraine in an attempt to claim control of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
If Russian troops could control Severodonetsk, they could more easily push the troops west to Ukraine and south, pinching the region from north to south.
The British Ministry of Defense said on Saturday, “Russia is likely to have resumed its efforts to move south of Izyum in the last 48 hours, with the goal of going deep into Donetsk and wrapping the Severo Donetsk pocket from the north. “.
Russian troops claim to open a humanitarian corridor to allow civilians to leave, but Ukrainian and Western officials say this is another attempt to deport Ukrainians to Russia. There are reportedly tens of thousands of Ukrainians repatriated.
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“Although the options to leave the town are limited by the destruction of the bridge, the route proposed by Russia will go to the town of Svatova, deep in the territory occupied by Russia,” the British Ministry of Defense said.
The ministry also argues that if trapped civilians do not use the corridors needed to leave the city, “Russia justifies by reducing the distinction between them and the targets of Ukrainian troops in the area. Let’s warn.