KHERSON BATTLE WAS WATERSHED MOMENT LIKE D-DAY: ZELENSKY
KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday likened the recapture of the southern city of Kherson to the Allied landings in France on D-Day in World War II, saying both were watersheds on the road to eventual victory.
Speaking via video link to a Group of 20 summit in Indonesia, Zelensky said Kherson’s liberation from eight months of Russian occupation was “reminiscent of many battles in the past, which became turning points in the wars”.
KYIV: Ukrainian authorities reported waves of Russian airstrikes across the country Tuesday, from east to west, including attacks in Kyiv that left residential buildings in flames.
A Ukrainian Air Force spokesman said Russia had launched around 100 missiles into Ukraine by early evening, more than on October 10, previously described as the largest number since the opening salvoes of the war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the main target of the missile flurry was energy infrastructure, as before.
Among regions where officials reported strikes were Lviv, in the west, and Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city in the northeast.
The strikes follow what have been days of euphoria in Ukraine sparked by the retaking of Kherson. The southern city, however, is without power and water and the head of the UN human rights office’s monitoring mission in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner, on Tuesday decried a “dire humanitarian situation” there.
Reports of abuses are also emerging in newly liberated Kherson areas now that Russian troops have gone.