After months of begging and shaming allies around the world to provide his nation with heavy weapons, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an overnight address Saturday that his pleas were finally being answered and his country was increasingly better able to defend itself.
“We will be able to show the occupiers that the day when they will be forced to leave Ukraine is approaching,” he said.
That vow of confidence came hours before Russian missiles struck residential and military buildings in the Black Sea port of Odesa, in an another sign Moscow still threatens more than the eastern Donbas region, its stated territorial objective. At least six people were killed, according to local officials, who said the death toll was expected to rise.
It was the first time that a missile has struck Odesa since early April and came a day after a Russian general said that Moscow was intent on controlling all of southern Ukraine.
While Russia has failed to make any significant territorial gains in the east, the Ukrainian defense intelligence agency warned that Russian forces are trying to identify the Ukrainian military’s most vulnerable points in order to launch a large-scale offensive.
The Russians continued to pound military and civilian targets along the 300-mile long front line even as the Ukrainian military claimed to have repulsed multiple Russian thrusts and staged counterattacks to reclaim Russian-occupied communities.
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