Podolyak said in an interview with Italian channel “Rai” that the counterattack began several days ago and fighting is raging along 1,500 kilometers of the border.
He clarified that Ukraine will not use Western weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation, but will use these weapons against the Russians to liberate Crimea and Donbass.
He added: “We don’t want to hit Russian territory, we will use weapons provided by the West to destroy Russian positions in territories occupied by Moscow, including Donbass and Crimea.”
Zelenskyy says he shot down 36 drones
For his part, the Ukrainian president accused Russia of continuing to try to “terrorize” his country through the attacks it launched overnight, announcing the downing of 36 drones on Wednesday evening.
Zelenskyy said via the Telegram app that Moscow ‘keeps trying to intimidate Ukraine’ and launched 36 drones overnight, ‘but none of them achieved their goal’, thanking air defenses from his country.
And the Ukrainian Air Force, in turn, announced that Russia had launched Iranian-made “Shahed 131” and “Shahed 136” drones from the north and south.
“The enemy was undoubtedly targeting basic infrastructure and military sites in the south of the country,” she said via Telegram.
Since early May, Russia has intensified its nighttime attacks targeting Ukraine with missiles and drones.
In particular, he twice used hypersonic “Kingal” missiles, which were difficult to shoot down for air defense systems.
Kyiv has confirmed that it shot down all of these missiles using the US “Patriot” air defense system, for the first time since the start of the invasion.
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