A senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed that huge Russian military reinforcements are heading towards Kherson, Melitopol and Zaporozhye.
He added that Russian forces had captured the second largest power station in the country UkraineHe pointed out that Moscow is carrying out an “intensive redeployment” of its forces in three southern regions.
As presidential adviser Oleksiy Aristovich said in an interview posted on YouTube on Wednesday, “They have achieved a small tactical advantage – they have captured Vohlhersk.”
Capture of Volhersk
Russian-backed forces had earlier announced the capture of the Soviet-era Volhersk coal-fired power plant.
Scenes from Ukraine
This comes in conjunction with the statements of the President of the separatist Donetsk region in Ukraine, Denis Pushlin, who confirmed earlier today that the time has come to “liberate Russian cities” such as Kyiv, Chernigov, Poltava, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Lutsk.
“Liberation of Russian Cities”
“Today is the time to liberate once again the Russian cities founded by the Russian people, such as Kyiv Chernigov, Poltava, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Lutsk,” the pro-Moscow leader said in a statement posted on his Telegram channel.
It is noteworthy that Russia now controls the entire Lugansk region, while seeking to seize Donetsk, and since last March, Moscow announced the launch of the second phase of its military operation in Ukraine, focusing on the east of the country.
Russian forces aim to control the entire Donbass basin, in order to open a land corridor between east and south, in the Crimea, which Russia annexed to its territory in 2014.