15 May 2024

Zelenskyy says "Security Forces Have Managed to Partially Stabilize the Situation"

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Ukrainian military commentators Konstantyn Mashovets and Alexander Kovalenko said Russia had committed about 2,000 soldiers to the front line, with about 2,000 more in immediate reserve and almost 4,000 due to arrive within a week of the initial attack.
These forces struck at two points on the border, 
  • one bound for the settlement of Lyptsi, 18km north of Kharkiv city, 
  • and the other bound for Vovchansk, about 30km (18.6 miles) to the east.
Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed five villages on Saturday and another four on Sunday, although it was not clear if Ukraine had been fully in control of these border settlements beforehand. 
By Tuesday, Russian and Ukrainian forces were fighting inside the settlements of Lyptsi and Vovchansk, approximately 5km (3 miles) from the border.
“This week, the situation in Kharkiv Oblast has significantly worsened,” Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskii wrote on the Telegram messaging app. “Currently, there are ongoing battles in the border areas … The situation is difficult, but the defence forces of Ukraine are doing everything to hold defensive lines and positions.”

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Over the Course of the Day, our Defense and Security Forces Have Managed to Partially Stabilize the Situation 
— Address by the President
15 May 2024 - 18:29

Over the Course of the Day, our Defense and Security Forces Have Managed to Partially Stabilize the Situation — Address by the President

Dear Ukrainians!

All day long our military and the Ministry of Defense have been delivering reports. 


Our attention is constantly focused on the frontline, on all combat zones. 
In the Kharkiv region — the areas near the border, the city of Vovchansk — our defensive actions continue. 

Over the course of the day our Defense and Security Forces of Ukraine — all units involved — have managed to partially stabilize the situation. 

  • The occupier, who entered the Kharkiv region, is being destroyed with all available means. 
  • Artillery, drones, and our infantry are working quite accurately. I thank all those who are in their positions now. 
The same attention is paid to all other directions. 

  • Especially to the Pokrovsk direction in the Donetsk region, as well as to the Kupyansk direction in the Kharkiv region. 
  • We clearly see how the occupier is trying to distract our forces and make our combat work less concentrated. 
We are reacting to this exactly as we should — we must have the means to retaliate against the enemy in every direction
Our Ukrainian result, our strength, depends on every soldier, every sergeant, and every officer who is directly in their positions, in combat, on the frontline: the full accomplishment of combat tasks in the current conditions should disrupt the Russian offensive plans. 

Throughout the day there were also reports on the internal situation: security, the elimination of the consequences of Russian strikes. 
  • Today there was a brutal attack on Kherson, Russian aerial bombs… 
  • Dnipro — there was a Russian missile attack… 
  • Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, and Sumy regions… 
Our rescuers of SES of Ukraine had a lot of work today. 

I thank every rescue team for their consistent promptness. 
I thank all the states that also help us, always promptly and always efficiently, — help our people and our state. 
The world has the strength, it has the weapons, it has the ability to force Russia into peace — into a just peace. 
And to succeed in this, absolutely everything must be done now to ensure that the Russian offensive and the Russian attempt to expand the war fails.

And one more thing.

Today there was an appalling attack on the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico. This is a totally unacceptable act of violence. I wish Mr. Prime Minister a speedy recovery, and it is important that the attacker be held accountable for his actions. No form of violence, and especially political violence, should ever be a part of people's existence.

Glory to all who defend life! I thank all those who defend Ukraine!

Glory to Ukraine!

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