Posted on 12/06/2022 5:13:01 PM PST by Timber Rattler
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited troops in the eastern Donetsk region, which Russia claims as its own after a sham referendum.
The area - particularly around the town of Bakhmut - is now the main focus of fighting after Ukraine's forces retook Kherson in the south last month.
President Zelensky called it the "most difficult area that protects not only the east, but our entire state".
Russia and its proxies have controlled parts of Donetsk since 2014.
But speaking on the Day of the Armed Forces, Mr Zelensky said he believed Ukraine would take back all the land occupied by Russia, including Crimea.
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