More than a year following the start of the Russian war of aggression, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recalled the first successes of his army. On March 21, 2022, the battle for the village of Moshchun, not far from the capital Kiev, was won, Zelensky said in his evening video speech on Tuesday. “This was our state’s first major step toward victory in this war.”
The Ukrainian leader also recalled the subsequent recapture of the eastern Kharkiv region and part of Kherson in the south of the country. “We will come to the same result with other offensive actions,” said Zelenskyj confidently, also with a view to the currently hard-fought Donbass in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian flag will also fly once more on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, he stressed.
Russia attacked the neighboring country on February 24, 2022. In the first weeks of the war, Russian troops were on the verge of Kiev, later the Ukrainians were able to push them back. With the help of Western military aid, the attacked country wants to reconquer all currently occupied areas.
