Zelensky expects Russian offensive in northeast Ukraine to intensify

and warned Kyiv only has a quarter of the air defences it needs to hold the front line.

Zelensky said Russian troops managed to advance between five to 10 kilometres along the northeastern border before being stopped by Ukrainian forces, but added that the region could be the “first wave” in a wider offensive. Russian forces have taken 278 square kilometres between May 9 and 15, their biggest gains since the end of 2022, AFP calculated using data from the Institute for the Study of War .Ukraine’s defence forces said they “were focusing their main efforts on preventing the Russian occupants from advancing.”

Zelensky acknowledged issues with staffing and “morale” within Ukraine’s often outgunned and outnumbered ranks, and signed a mobilisation law that came into force on Saturday.Many Ukrainian soldiers have been fighting for more than two years without the possibility of being discharged. Poland announced it would spend $2.5 billion to fortify its eastern border, which includes Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

“We are in a nonsense situation where the West is afraid that Russia will lose the war. And it does not want Ukraine to lose it,” Zelensky said. The Federal Government through the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, has donated relief materials to 1,000 victims of windstorms across the 13 local government areas of Nasarawa State. There were recent cases of windstorms in some communities across the state which rendered many residents homeless with sources of livelihood destroyed. Speaking…

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