Ukraine “has significant potential” for advancement at the front – Zelenskyi
On July 21, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi held a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief – he spoke about this in an evening address on Thursday.
According to the message, the participants answered the current minute on the front line.
“We defined tasks in some tactical directions to strengthen our positions. And he very thoroughly worked out the issue of supplying the troops with the latest weapons – it is necessary to increase the intensity of attacks on the enemy. The participants of the meeting of the Stavka agreed that we have a significant potential to advance our forces at the front and to inflict new significant losses on the occupiers,” he said.
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Zelenskyi also reported that several members of the United States Senate proposed to Congress to recognize Russia’s aggression against Ukraine’s genocide. He said that such a step was proposed a few months ago by an expert group led by Andriy Yermak and Michael McFaul.
“And here is the first real result of the visit of the First Lady of Ukraine to the United States – Senators Rish, Cardin, Wicker, Blumenthal, Portman, Shahin and Graham presented a draft resolution on the recognition of Russia’s actions in Ukraine as genocide. The resolution states that Russia’s actions in Ukraine, which include forced deportation to Russia and the targeted killing of Ukrainian civilians during mass executions, constitute genocide against the people of Ukraine,” the president said.
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Russia’s large-scale military invasion of Ukraine has been ongoing since the morning of February 24. Russian military tasks of airstrikes on key objects of military and civilian infrastructure.
Russia denies that it is waging a war of aggression against Ukraine on its territory and calls it a “special operation” aimed at “demilitarization and denazification” as well as “protecting people from genocide.”
In the state of the UN on July 12, 5,024 cases of death and 6,520 cases of wounding of civilians in Ukraine were confirmed as a result of the full-scale invasion of Russia. At the same time, the organization emphasizes that the real numbers are much higher.