President: Invaders trying to mobilize residents of temporarily occupied areas of southern Ukraine

“Combat reports for today do not differ significantly from previous ones. Russian troops are stepping up activity in the eastern and southern directions. They are trying to retaliate for their defeats. Rocket bombings and artillery strikes continue. New columns of equipment are being brought in. They are looking for reserves. They are trying to recruit residents of the south of our country - that is, from these temporarily occupied areas in addition to the so-called mobilization in certain districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in his latest address, Ukrinform reports.

According to him, all this “feverish activity” of the occupiers testifies first of all to their insecurity and to the fact that even with significant stocks of Soviet military equipment and a significant number of soldiers, whom the commanders do not spare at all, the Russian troops doubt their ability to break Ukraine.

“Well, we do everything to justify their doubts,” Zelensky stressed.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been going on since February 24. Russian troops shell and destroy key critical and civilian infrastructure, brutally killing Ukrainians.

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