President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky called the situation in the Donbass “Very difficult.”
“Occupants are trying to achieve the goals for at least 100 days of the war, which they were going to realize in the first days after February 24,” the president said on Friday evening in a traditional video message. Therefore, he said, “they concentrated maximum artillery, maximum reserves, there are missile strikes and aviation” in the Donbass, reports the words of Zelensky Interfax-Ukraine.
“We protect our land as the defense resource available to us allows us. Everything is to strengthen it, and we will strengthen,” Zelensky said.
“If the invaders think that Liman and Severodonetsk will be them, then they are mistaken. Donbass will be Ukrainian, because it is us. And even if Russia brings destruction and suffering there, we will still restore every city, every community. There. There will be no alternatives to our Ukrainian flags, ”he stressed.