Zelinsky: The situation is very difficult in eastern Ukraine and we need new weapons

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that his country was facing a “very difficult” situation in the Donetsk region – in the east of the country – and needed faster arms supplies and new types of weapons to resist Russian attacks .

“The situation is very difficult. There are continuous Russian attacks (in) Bakhmut, Volidar and other sectors in the Donetsk region,” he added in his recorded nightly speech.

He also added, “Russia wants the war to prolong and deplete our forces … That’s why we need to speed things up, speed up supplies and make new weapons options available to Ukraine.”

A strike hits a hospital in Kherson

In addition, Zelensky said Sunday’s Russian shelling of Kherson in southern Ukraine killed at least three people and injured six, including two nurses. in an attack on the city hospital.

“The Russian army has been brutally shelling Kherson all day. A hospital, post office and bus station were damaged. Two nurses were injured in hospital. In total, there are six injured and three dead,” she said.

On the other hand, authorities in the Russian-controlled Zaporizhia region indicated that four people were killed in a Ukrainian attack on a railway bridge.

Recently, the front in southern Ukraine, where the Russian army was forced out of Kherson in November, was calm compared to the front lines in the east, where fierce fighting is taking place, but shelling from both sides parties have not stopped, and this week fighting has resumed in the Zaporizhia region.

HIMARS missiles

For his part, the head of the pro-Russian administration in Zaporizhia, Yevgeny Paletsky, accused the Ukrainian forces of launching “an attack with HIMARS missile launchers against a railway bridge crossing the Molochnaya River”.

Paletsky added, “Four railway workers were killed, while five were injured while receiving treatment.”

The bridge is there in a village north of the Russian-controlled city of Melitopol and is in being repaired, according to the official.

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