Zelensky visits frontline troops in Khakiv | Inquirer News

Zelensky visits frontline in first trip outside Kyiv since invasion

/ 10:44 PM May 29, 2022

Volodymyr Zelensky with frontline troops in Kharkiv. STORY: Zelensky visits frontline in first trip outside Kyiv since invasion

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky visits a position of Ukrainian service members, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine May 29, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited troops on the frontline in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region on Sunday, his first official appearance outside the Kyiv region since the start of Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24.

“You risk your lives for us all and for our country,” the president’s office website cited him as telling the soldiers, adding that he handed out commendations and gifts.

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Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, wrote on the Telegram app that the president had also visited Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv.

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Yermak said Zelenskiy toured destroyed residential buildings, noting that their replacements had to be built with bomb shelters in place.

The president’s chief of staff added that 31% of the Kharkiv region’s territory was currently occupied by Russia, and a further 5% had been taken back by Ukraine having been occupied earlier.

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