Russia suffers significant losses in Ukraine in all directions, tries to cordon off Odesa – NSDC Secretary
As of the ninth day of the war, the Russian invaders are suffering significant losses in all operational areas in Ukraine – Poliske, Siverske, Slobozhanske, Tavriiske and in the Joint Forces Operation zone, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said.
"Today, the Ukrainian military and the territorial defense forces have intercepted the tactical initiative, but the enemy does not leave the plans to encircle the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv and enter the administrative borders of Luhansk and Donetsk regions ... The southern direction remains hot, where the occupier concentrates resources for active operations to try to cordon off Odesa," Danilov wrote on Facebook on Friday.
According to him, the Russian occupation command has already used at least 95% of the trained armored personnel and needs to urgently pull up the reserve.
"Realizing the weakness of their own positions and in order to gain time for redeployment and renewal, the enemy is inflicting intense air and rocket-artillery strikes on military and civilian targets. Tonight, the Putin regime has put the world under the threat of a global catastrophe. Russian terrorist troops shelled the territory of Zaporizhia nuclear power plant... All this is a consequence of the Kremlin's failure to achieve its goals in Ukraine by military means, which led to the sanctioning of Putin's overtly terrorist methods," the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council emphasized.
He noted that the invaders use ambulances with the symbols of the Red Cross to transport weapons and ammunition; dress up in Ukrainian military uniforms, shelling peaceful towns and villages. "Therefore, for the entire Russian elite, The Hague is approaching faster and more inevitably. The Ukrainian army is ready to repulse the occupier and destroy it, wherever it is!" Danilov emphasized.
