The Ukrainian president said Russia was looking to 'exhaust' Kyiv's forces.
has called on its Western backers to"speed up" the delivery of promised supplies to Ukraine as Russian forces claim to have advanced around the eastern city of Bakhmut.
Speaking in his nightly address on Sunday, Zelensky stressed the need to quickly"open up new weapons options for Ukraine." The Ukrainian leader said Moscow was hoping to"exhaust" Kyiv's resistance forces, telling his audience that the situation was"very tough" around Bakhmut. He listed Bakhmut, along with the Donetsk town of Vuhledar, as under"constant Russian attacks," adding that the"enemy does not count its people and, despite numerous casualties, maintains a high intensity of attacks."
Heavy fighting has been reported in Vuhledar and Blahodatne, to the southwest of Donetsk city. Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-backed administrator in Donetsk, said Russian forces had gained a"foothold" in Vuhledar, according to Russian state media.U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky through the colonnade of the White House, in Washington, DC, on December 21, 2022.
On the same day, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz confirmed Berlin would send 14 Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Kyiv, and allow the third-party transfer of the tanks from various other nations. The U.K. had already said it would transfer 14 Challenger 2 tanks.that the tanks wouldn't be rolling into Ukraine anytime soon.
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