We will push Russia back o the border: Zelensky

Kyiv, Aug 30: All eyes are on Ukraine’s counter-offensive in the south of the country, with one of the country’s officials saying progress has been made.

 

 

 

A spokesperson for Ukraine’s southern military command told NBC News on Monday that Russian troops were retreating from some areas where Ukraine has launched a counteroffensive.

 

 

 

Ukrainian forces began the counteroffensive to retake the Russian-occupied territory of Kherson, the military command announced on Monday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed confidence that Ukraine’s forces will push the occupying Russian forces back to pre-2014 borders. In other news, the International Atomic Energy Agency (the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog) is set to visit Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant this week after months of growing international alarm over the fighting surrounding the facility, which has been occupied by Russian forces since March. Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv came under heavy shelling on Tuesday morning, according to local officials. Kharkiv’s Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the city center had been shelled, leaving at least five people dead and seven wounded. “Artillery shelling of the central part of the city,” the mayor said on Telegram, adding that a large square and surrounding houses had been hit. Kharkiv is located in northeastern Ukraine, near the border with Russia.

 

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Terekhov said more information was being gathered about the victims and wounded. In a subsequent post, he said a five-story residential building had been hit and that there was a fire in a residential building. It’s uncertain if he was referring to the same building.