KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday compared the regain of the southern city of Kherson to the Allied landings in France on D-Day in World War II, stating both were watersheds on the roadway to ultimate success.
Speaking through video link to a Group of 20 top in Indonesia, Zelenskyy stated Kherson’s freedom from 8 months of Russian profession was “reminiscent of numerous fights in the previous, which endedupbeing turning points in the wars.”
“It’s like, for example, D-Day — the landing of the Allies in Normandy. It was not yet a last point in the battle versus wicked, however it currently figuredout the whole more course of occasions. This is precisely what we are sensation now,” he stated.
The retaking of Kherson was one of Ukraine’s greatest successes in the almost 9-month-old Russian intrusion and dealt another stinging blow to the Kremlin. But big parts of eastern and southern Ukraine stay under Russian control and battling continues. Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday reported another civilian death, from Russian shelling, in eastern Ukraine — including to the intrusion’s heavy toll of lotsof 10s of tho