Ukraine president visits troopers on southern entrance line

In his trademark khaki t-shirt, the president handed out medals and posed for selfies with the servicemen in what seemed to be an underground shelter, in keeping with a video posted to his official Telegram account.

“Our brave men. Each one of them is working flat out,” he mentioned. “We will definitely hold out! We will definitely win!”

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy poses for a gaggle image with medical employees throughout a go to to an area hospital within the southern metropolis of Mykolaiv. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/REUTERS)

Russian forces reached the outskirts of the regional capital Mykolaiv in early March however had been then pushed again to the jap and southern edges of the area, the place preventing is ongoing.

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Zelenskyy’s workplace mentioned the president additionally visited town and inspected the destroyed regional administration constructing, the place 37 individuals had been killed in late March when a missile blasted by means of the constructing.

He additionally visited a hospital in Mykolaiv and awarded honours for bravery to Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych and Governor Vitaliy Kim for his or her work through the 4 months of Russia’s invasion, his workplace mentioned in a separate assertion.