While the people of Kherson celebrate their liberation, the nightmare for the people of Donetsk continues. According to the Russian army, they conquered two places. Ukrainian President Selenskyj speaks of particularly violent attacks.
Russia's Defense Ministry has reported a minor success in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Russian soldiers have conquered the town of Majorsk near the town of Horliwka, said ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.
There was no information on this from the Ukrainian side. However, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had already spoken of the currently particularly violent Russian attacks in Donetsk in his video address on Saturday evening. "It's pure hell there," he said. Russia's army has conquered large parts of Donetsk and annexed it in September - as well as the neighboring region of Luhansk and Zaporizhia and Cherson in the south - in violation of international law.
In Cherson, on the other hand, the Russians recently suffered a heavy defeat: In the face of successful Ukrainian counter-offensives, they withdrew more than eight months after the start of the war from the regional capital of the same name, Cherson, and other places north-west of the Dnipro River.
In his video message, Zelenskyy announced the liberation of other areas currently occupied by Russia. "We don't forget anyone, we won't leave anyone behind," Zelenskyj said in the video. The head of state promised that the Ukrainian flag would also fly again on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014. Ukrainian media continued to publish videos of cheering people greeting their troops in Kherson.
