The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj described the battle once morest the Russian army for the strategically important city of Sievjerodonetsk as pointing the way for the fight in the east of his country. “Syeverodonetsk remains the epicenter of the clashes in Donbas,” Zelenskyy said in a video message in Kyiv yesterday.
The Ukrainian military is inflicting noticeable losses on the enemy there. “This is a very brutal and difficult battle. Perhaps one of the hardest of this war (…) In many ways the fate of our Donbas will be decided there.”
President remembers football championship
Zelenskyy reminded that exactly ten years ago, on June 8, 2012, the European Football Championship was opened in Ukraine and Poland. “The games took place in different cities of our two countries, including in Donetsk at the Donbas Arena,” the president said. That was only ten years ago. “But you get the impression that it was in another world.”
Ten years ago Donetsk was “strong, proud and developed”. “But then came Russia,” said Zelenskyj. Only the return of Ukraine, the Ukrainian flag and Ukrainian law might mean normal life for the area and the city. “Life as it was. Peaceful, safe, open to the world. And, of course, new matches by world-class teams in the Donbas Arena.”
