Go to the media bankThe work of artillerymen in the Kherson direction. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 18Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of Vladimir Zelensky’s office, said that the Ukrainian troops failed to achieve their goals of capturing settlements in a number of directions, in particular, in the regions of Kherson and Svatovo. we will take everything, but things are a little different with the capture now, not everything is so simple, «Arestovich said on air on the YouTube channel of journalist Mark Feigin (included by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the list of media-foreign agents). Arestovich also noted that the fighting on Ukraine is moving into the next stage, which «will not be easy» for Kyiv, and the Russian side «found ways and means of conducting hostilities», which now pose a «significant problem» for Ukraine. At the same time, the adviser to the head of Zelensky's office did not rule out that Ukraine will need additional mobilization. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. The ultimate goal of the operation, according to the supreme commander, is «the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that would guarantee the security of Russia itself. On September 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in the Kremlin following the results of referendums in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, after which he signed agreements with their chapters on the admission of regions to Russia.
June 22, 17:18InfographicInteractive map of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine
