Ukraine’s Zelensky: Hundreds of Russians killed daily near Donetsk

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a meeting of the National Security and Defence Council, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, after Russia held what it called referendums – votes that were denounced by Kyiv and Western governments as illegal and coercive – in Kyiv, Ukraine September 30, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that Donetsk region in the east remained the “epicenter” of fighting in the conflict, with hundreds of Russians being killed every day.

“The Donetsk region remains the epicenter of the greatest madness of the occupiers,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address. “They are being killed in their hundreds every day. The ground in front of Ukrainian positions is littered with bodies of the occupiers.”

The towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka are the focal points of the heaviest fighting in Donetsk region.

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