Ukraine War: ‘You All Deserve Victory’— Zelensky Hails Troops During Visit

• ‘You All Deserve Victory’— Zelensky Hails Troops During Visit.

• Zelensky visited the beleaguered city of Lysychansk on Sunday, just a few kilometres south from Sievierodonetsk, where Ukraine claims to be fighting back in one of the war’s biggest ground battles.

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited the frontline close to the fiercest fighting between his country’s troops and Russian forces in the east, as the UK and Spain said they would defy threats from the Kremlin by sending missile systems to help Kyiv.

Wearing his trademark khaki T-shirt and trousers, Zelensky visited the beleaguered city of Lysychansk on Sunday, just a few kilometres south from Sievierodonetsk, where Ukraine claims to be fighting back in one of the war’s biggest ground battles.

The fight to push Russian forces back received a boost on Sunday when the UK government said it would supply long-range rocket artillery to Ukraine, despite a threat on Sunday from Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, to bomb fresh targets if similar weapons from the US were delivered to Kyiv.

Zelensky also visited the Donbas city of Soledar in a rare outing by the Ukrainian president outside the capital Kyiv since the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February that could be his closest yet to the frontline.

“I went with the head of [my] office to the east. We were in Lysychansk and Soledar,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address, adding he would not elaborate on the visit.

In two separate videos released later, Zelensky was shown talking to troops in confined, bunker-like structures, presenting some with awards and addressing others.

“What you all deserve is victory – that is the most important thing. But not at any cost,” Zelensky said in one of the videos.

Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk are in the Luhansk region and Soledar is in the Donetsk region. Both regions make up the broader Donbas region, Ukraine’s industrial heartland, which Russia claims is on a mission to “liberate”.

Earlier on Sunday, Zelensky said he had also visited frontline troops in the south-eastern region of Zaporizhzhia, whose governor claims that 60% of the region is under Russian occupation.

The UK will send a handful of tracked M270 multiple launch rocket systems, which can hit targets up to 50 miles (80km) away, in the hope they can disrupt the concentrated Russian artillery that has been pounding cities in eastern Ukraine.

Spain is also stepping up its support for Ukraine, according to government sources cited by newspaper El País. Spain is to supply Ukraine with anti-aircraft missiles and Leopard battle tanks along with training for the equipment.

Spain had previously sent only ammunition, individual protection equipment and light weapons to Ukraine.

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The additional military support for Ukraine came after Nato began almost two weeks of naval exercises led by the US in the Baltic Sea on Sunday.

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