Presidential adviser says supply lines and depots already being destroyed as preliminary operations get under way
Preliminary operations have already begun to pave the way for a counteroffensive against Russian occupying forces, a Ukrainian presidential adviser has said.
showing heavily armed Ukrainian soldiers preparing for battle to a soundtrack of ominous music and a narrator reciting a prayer calling for strength to “annihilate” Ukraine’s enemies. A long spell of dry weather has driven anticipation of the counteroffensive, as has the incursion by Ukrainian-backed Russian rebel groups into Belgorod, possibly intended to draw troops and equipment away from the frontline in Ukraine.
“As an authoritarian regime exists in Russia, how can we prevent its own citizens from doing something about it?” he asked.Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP The prayer that can be heard on the video posted by Zaluzhny, calls for divine blessing on Ukrainian vengeance.
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