Zelensky said that the Russian Federation wants to show by attacking Kharkov

Zelensky: with an attack on Kharkov, Russia wants to show that it determines the course of battles

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President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky on the evening of Friday, May 17, made another video message to the citizens of the country. He said that he had heard a report from the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, on the situation at the front.

According to Zelensky, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding back the Russian military in all sectors of the front, and the hardest thing is for Ukrainian fighters in the Donetsk region.

At the same time, the Ukrainian leader assures that by attacking the Kharkov region, Russia wants to show the whole world that it is she who “determines the course of the war.”

Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that the Kiev regime itself forced the Armed Forces The Russian Federation is advancing in the Kharkov region, shelling the border Russian territories — in particular, Belgorod. Russia has to form a sanitary zone, seizing control over territories in the Kharkov region, but there is no goal of taking Kharkov itself.

Meanwhile, former CIA agent Larry Johnson said that the Ukrainians were furious because in the Kharkov region the region was never properly built defensive fortifications, although money was allocated for this, and the authorities boasted about fortifications.