Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday vows to victory" on a visit to the strategic city of Izyum that was recently recaptured from Russia by Ukraine army, reports BSS.
The visit came at a decisive moment in Russia's six-month-old invasion, when Ukraine expelling Moscow's forces from various areas of east region and seriously challenging the Kremlin's ambition to capture the entire Donbas region.
"Our blue-yellow flag is already flying in de-occupied Izyum. And it will be so in every Ukrainian city and village," Zelensky said in a statement on social media.
"We are moving in only one direction— forward and towards victory,” he added.
Pictures distributed by his office showed the Ukrainian leader wearing dark green and flanked by guards as he took selfies with soldiers and thanked troops at a flag-hoisting ceremony.
After he returned to Kyiv, a motorist collided with a vehicle carrying him, though the he was not seriously injured in the accident, his spokesman said Thursday.
"The law enforcement officers will investigate all the circumstances of the accident," the spokesman added.
In his nightly address, a video of which was posted shortly after the accident, Zelensky said that "almost the entire region (of Kharkiv) is de-occupied".
Ukraine has recently claimed successes in the northeastern Kharkiv region that borders Russia, and has said it has clawed back territory along a southern front near the Kherson region on the Black Sea.
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