Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine could soon fall to Russian forces, giving his most grim assessment yet.
In a video address over the weekend, Zelenskyy said that conditions in Donbas have grown “indescribably difficult” and suggested the region could fall to Russia. Since the 2014 color revolution in Kyiv, pro-Russian forces have controlled parts of Donestk and Lugansk and sporadic fighting has erupted over the years.
“But our defense holds on,” Zelensky told the public. “It’s indescribably difficult there. And I am grateful to all those who withstand this onslaught of the occupiers.”
Russian and Ukrainian troops engaged in close-quarter combat in the Donbas city of Sievierodonetsk as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain strategic footholds for conquering the region….