Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that very heavy battles are taking place in the east, as if during the Second World War.

The head of state announced this in an interview for the British publication "The Economist".

"In the East, we have a very difficult situation. 

It's like World War II. 

Likewise in Bakhmut, Soledar, Kharkiv, Kremennaya, Svatovo. 

This is a real war, fire, shelling, rockets, artillery, everything," he said. 

And in the liberated territories, as Zelensky noted, there is no electricity, no water, no gas, no communications after the stay of the "Russian world".

The occupiers destroyed everything and continue to destroy it after leaving. 

"Further south, in the Azov region, in the occupied territories, some villages in Zaporozhye. 

There is nothing, no electricity, no water, nothing. 

And in Kherson they are so happy that we have arrived, and on the other side of the Dnieper they are firing artillery on Kherson against those about whom they said yesterday that "we are one people". 

And in Kyiv you see that it is not so dangerous, but they started using missiles and Iranian drones," he added.

The situation at the front

In the near future, Russia's main efforts will be focused on fulfilling the strategic task of establishing full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhnyi, said that the Russians are preparing about 200,000 new soldiers who will try to attack Kyiv again.

During his speech to the European Council, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, said that the next six months of war will be decisive and will require greater efforts than in the past.

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