Ukrainian forces are suffering painful losses in fighting Russian troops in both the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and the Kharkiv region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday.

In a late night address, he also said Ukraine needed modern anti-missile weapons now, adding there could be no justification for partner countries to delay delivery.

Some Russian rockets are evading defences and causing casualties, he said.

Ukraine said its forces were still trying to evacuate civilians from Sievierodonetsk after Russia destroyed the last bridge to the city, the latest stage in a weeks-long battle in the Donbas region that Moscow seeks to capture.

"The fiercest battles, as before, are in Sievierodonetsk and other nearby towns and communities. The losses, unfortunately, are painful," said Zelenskiy.

"But we have to hold strong - holding strong is so critically important in Donbas. The more losses the enemy suffers there the less strength it will have to pursue its aggression," he said.

Ukraine is also seeing "painful losses" in the Kharkiv region to the east of Kyiv, where Russia is trying to strengthen its position after being pushed back recently, Zelenskiy said.

He added: "Battles are continuing there and we have to keep fighting, fighting hard."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-06-14/ukraine-suffering-painful-losses-in-sievierodonetsk-kharkiv-region-zelenskiy%3fcontext=amp

Mynd44 Lalasticlala Seun

The grand comedian!! Buhari first born!! Your mumu na made in Taiwan!!

DerrickzB:
The grand comedian!! Buhari first born!! Your mumu na made in Taiwan!!

No one would have predicted in a million years this "police action" will still be going on till now! SHAME ON RUSSIA!! All hail Zelenskiy!

But come o, OP, why couldn't Putin have simply used Russian-tied Ukrainian generals to remove the 40-year-old professional comedian?! I mean he's no soldier or anything. Instead it's going on till now. It's simply UNBELIEVABLE!

The original GCFR
Grand Comedian of the Federal Republic..

Buhari wey be your papa dey learn work where you dey..

Olodo

This is an unfortunate war. This war could have been avoided but at what cost, Putin has revealed his intentions about land grabbing and said most of the Ukrainian territories belong to Russia. He has even started the distribution of Russian passport in some part of the Ukraine.

Land has the biggest land mass but alas! Humans are just so greedy and insatiable.

Humans with all the so called intelligence has only survived for less than 200,000yrs and at the verge of extinction. By the same calculations, almost all other animals have survived for millions of years.

Zelensky still a mad man

DerrickzB:
The grand comedian!! Buhari first born!! Your mumu na made in Taiwan!!

Na morons full this nairaland....

Instead of engaging in the war, he should have surrendered ABI....

Make Putin turn am to prisoner

Una no even dey think sef...

daddytime:
The original GCFR
Grand Comedian of the Federal Republic..

Buhari wey be your papa dey learn work where you dey..

Olodo

How exactly zelensky be olodo
Explain yourself...

Rastaramsey:


Na morons full this nairaland....

Instead of engaging in the war, he should have surrendered ABI....

Make Putin turn am to prisoner

Una no even dey think sef...

This war could have been avoided. You cannot fight a war with someone stronger than you. Mexico tried it with the US, they lost California, Arizona. Texas, New Mexico, etc to the US. They won’t try it again.

ponziponzi:


This war could have been avoided. You cannot fight a war with someone stronger than you. Mexico tried it with the US, they lost California, Arizona. Texas, New Mexico, etc to the US. They won’t try it again.

You mean a whole country should surrender
That's bullshit....

Russia has taken over some parts of Ukraine even before the war....
Putin wanted to Elect his own president in another man's country....

Rastaramsey:


You mean a whole country should surrender
That's bullshit....

Russia has taken over some parts of Ukraine even before the war....
Putin wanted to Elect his own president in another man's country....

But zelensky is also a US puppet. Putin man was removed and a pro western guy (zelensky was elected)
.

Zelensky isn't neutral!!

Rastaramsey:


Na morons full this nairaland....

Instead of engaging in the war, he should have surrendered ABI....

Make Putin turn am to prisoner

Una no even dey think sef...

You can still make your subjections known without abusing me!!!

The war should not have started at first if he was smart!!

Putin wouldn’t have turned him to prisoner cause Putin wouldn’t have invaded if he had maintained a neautral status!!

PoliteActivist:


No one would have predicted in a million years this "police action" will still be going on till now! SHAME ON RUSSIA!! All hail Zelenskiy!

But come o, OP, why couldn't Putin have simply used Russian-tied Ukrainian generals to remove the 40-year-old professional comedian?! I mean he's no soldier or anything. Instead it's going on till now. It's simply UNBELIEVABLE!

Oh really?? Russia is fighting just Ukraine?? So what are foreign mercenaries and NATO weapons doing there

If you are following the Ukraine news you’d know Russians are slowing down the operation to avoid losses which is very reasonable!!

PoliteActivist:


No one would have predicted in a million years this "police action" will still be going on till now! SHAME ON RUSSIA!! All hail Zelenskiy!

But come o, OP, why couldn't Putin have simply used Russian-tied Ukrainian generals to remove the 40-year-old professional comedian?! I mean he's no soldier or anything. Instead it's going on till now. It's simply UNBELIEVABLE!

It's too early in this war for president assassinations,that would be too extreme

All those nato members are cannon fodder meant to save USA when world War starts.

They are meant to take the first nuke before USA can retaliate.

They are not in control of their nation they satellite state to USA

With time zelenesky will sumbit to Russia peace will then come.

DerrickzB:


Oh really?? Russia is fighting just Ukraine?? So what are foreign mercenaries and NATO weapons doing there

If you are following the Ukraine news you’d know Russians are slowing down the operation to avoid losses which is very reasonable!!

No, Putin, a seasoned and experienced KGB strategist and feared long-time dictator is fighting Zelenskiy, a neophyte professional comedian, feared by absolutely no one!

Rastaramsey:


You mean a whole country should surrender
That's bullshit....

Russia has taken over some parts of Ukraine even before the war....
Putin wanted to Elect his own president in another man's country....

Lol. There will eventually be a peace talk and Ukraine will have to make certain compromises. It has little options.

PoliteActivist:


No, Putin, a seasoned and experienced KGB strategist and feared long-time dictator is fighting Zelenskiy, a neophyte professional comedian, feared by absolutely no one!

Zelensky is the one carrying guns to go to the war front?? Is he the one supplying himself with western weapons?? Bro haba na. You can say anything but we all know Ukraine is dying gradually!!!

And at the end of this conflict we’d know who lost more!!

DerrickzB:


Zelensky is the one carrying guns to go to the war front?? Is he the one supplying himself with western weapons?? Bro haba na. You can say anything but we all know Ukraine is dying gradually!!!

And at the end of this conflict we’d know who lost more!!

That's the point: Ukraine need not have died at all. What's the use of a dead Ukraine to Russia. It is not like Iraqi war. It is more like USA destroying Texas. How does it benefit US. I am really truly surprised Putin didn't simply patiently worked and installed a Russian ally as president - that's what a US president would have done. The only reason is that he thought, like everyone else, that the war would be quickly over. He even had a list of those to be arrested, Zelensky being number one!

PoliteActivist:


That's the point: Ukraine need not have died at all. What's the use of a dead Ukraine to Russia. It is not like Iraqi war. It is more like USA destroying Texas. How does it benefit US. I am really truly surprised Putin didn't simply patiently worked and installed a Russian ally as president - that's what a US president would have done. The only reason is that he thought, like everyone else, that the war would be quickly over. He even had a list of those to be arrested, Zelensky being number one!

And you have seen the list?.

The beauty of these whole conflicts is that NATO and its allies are totally confused on what Russia is doing. None of them seems to understand russian end game.

Rastaramsey:


Na morons full this nairaland....

Instead of engaging in the war, he should have surrendered ABI....

Make Putin turn am to prisoner

Una no even dey think sef...

Get sense. If it was Poroshenko, this would never have happened. He would have negotiated and stick to his side of the bargain as a businessman. But when you have a comedian as president who knows nothing about politics, let alone geopolitics, this is bound to happen. It is only a madman like Zelensky that could have expected to win a war with a giant next door neighbor.

Pro-Putin luuuunatics won't stop taking Panadol for another's headache.

With the right weapons (and they will get them), Russia will be on the backfoot in the Donbass.

Already, Russia have declared that their ultimate aim in Ukraine is to liberate the Donbass. Even that will come at a very HUGE cost if it ever happens.

Russia have failed in the conquest of Ukraine.

Dvdpity:

And you have seen the list?.

The beauty of these whole conflicts is that NATO and its allies are totally confused on what Russia is doing. None of them seems to understand russian end game.

The list was leaked and also contained the Ukrainian based Nigerian pastor, Adelaja, who immediately ran away - thinking Putin's soldiers would simply walk in and arrest him. No one thought it would be a long drawn out war.
Oh, Russian doesn't understand it's own end game either. It shifts day to day

PoliteActivist:


The list was leaked and also contained the Ukrainian based Nigerian pastor, Adelaja, who immediately ran away - thinking Putin's soldiers would simply walk in and arrest him. No one thought it would be a long drawn out war.
Oh, Russian doesn't understand it's own end game either. It shifts day to day

Only you believe western lies even report from USA said few people now believe western media lies you still fall for those fake news

Russia game plan is hidden and many

Killing zelenesky is not going to solve any thing

One game plan is to weaken the minds of western politicians and citizens so they will be defeated in their mindset that they cannot stop Russia in wars that the thing that is now happening all nato nations have given up hope of putting their military men in Ukraine

The West is now humbled as it watches Russia bomb Ukraine to smithereens.

PoliteActivist:


That's the point: Ukraine need not have died at all. What's the use of a dead Ukraine to Russia. It is not like Iraqi war. It is more like USA destroying Texas. How does it benefit US. I am really truly surprised Putin didn't simply patiently worked and installed a Russian ally as president - that's what a US president would have done. The only reason is that he thought, like everyone else, that the war would be quickly over. He even had a list of those to be arrested, Zelensky being number one!

A pro-Russian president was overthrown in a coup in 2014. It was engineered by USA, and hence zelensky their puppet came in!! Since then the people of Donbas, DPR and LPR has been massacred abd their houses turned into firing positions!! What Putin is doing is what even america would do given these regions are Russian speaking regions!! U get??

And Putin didn’t have a list of people to be arrested, that was a western media lie!!

China lays groundwork for its own ‘special military operation’ vs Taiwan

Xi Jinping signs directive allowing for ‘non-war’ uses of the military – a tactic similar to that used by Russia before it invaded Ukraine



The text says "Special Operation"

DerrickzB:


A pro-Russian president was overthrown in a coup in 2014. It was engineered by USA, and hence zelensky their puppet came in!! Since then the people of Donbas, DPR and LPR has been massacred abd their houses turned into firing positions!! What Putin is doing is what even america would do given these regions are Russian speaking regions!! U get??

And Putin didn’t have a list of people to be arrested, that was a western media lie!!

Did you consider what you wrote? Faraway USA was able to engineer a coup. Russia that is right next to Ukraine, with many Russians living there and their top generals trained in Russia, can't engineer one against a non-soldier professional comedian president!

The list was leaked and also contained the Ukrainian based Nigerian pastor named Adelaja, who immediately ran away - thinking Putin's soldiers would simply walk in and arrest him. No one thought it would be a long, drawn out war.

PoliteActivist:


Did you consider what you wrote? Faraway USA was able to engineer a coup. Russia that is right next to Ukraine, with many Russians living there and their top generals trained in Russia, can't engineer one against a non-soldier professional comedian president!

The list was leaked and also contained the Ukrainian based Nigerian pastor named Adelaja, who immediately ran away - thinking Putin's soldiers would simply walk in and arrest him. No one thought it would be a long, drawn out war.

Why don't you tell us you also believed in ghost of Kyiv or that Russia is dying more than Ukraine lol lol

Or

Don't forget that putin he's hiding in a bunker. And there has been an overthrow of the Russia's government. He's dead and a body double is running the show. Do they really expect us to believe any of this crap!

Carry your fake news in your heart and Rejoice with it lol.

PoliteActivist:


No one would have predicted in a million years this "police action" will still be going on till now! SHAME ON RUSSIA!! All hail Zelenskiy!

But come o, OP, why couldn't Putin have simply used Russian-tied Ukrainian generals to remove the 40-year-old professional comedian?! I mean he's no soldier or anything. Instead it's going on till now. It's simply UNBELIEVABLE!

Funny how the western media are painting Russia black…. I’m not saying they’re not bad oo.
Think about how Russia waited for those captured foreigners in mauripol to surrender when they could just ignite the whole factory…
I mean if Russia wants to destroy the whole of Ukraine,it would have cost less stress than this their gradual action is costing them.
Watch EUnow, you will understand better.
You will see Russian soldiers among the civilians,yes there’re cases of civilians being killed intentionally by Russian soldiers despite holding a white flag …

pol23:

Funny how the western media are painting Russia black…. I’m not saying they’re not bad oo.
Think about how Russia waited for those captured foreigners in mauripol to surrender when they could just ignite the whole factory…
I mean if Russia wants to destroy the whole of Ukraine,it would have cost less stress than this their gradual action is costing them.
Watch EUnow, you will understand better.
You will see Russian soldiers among the civilians,yes there’re cases of civilians being killed intentionally by Russian soldiers despite holding a white flag …

The point is, Russia didn't have to destroy ANYTHING. Like I said, it is like US destroying Texas. Simply patiently use Russian elements in Ukraine and tons of cash to undermine Zekenski and eventually replace him with their own man. But like I said, they thought like everyone else that Ukraine would simply surrender, too intimidated to really put up much of a fight

PoliteActivist:


Did you consider what you wrote? Faraway USA was able to engineer a coup. Russia that is right next to Ukraine, with many Russians living there and their top generals trained in Russia, can't engineer one against a non-soldier professional comedian president!

The list was leaked and also contained the Ukrainian based Nigerian pastor named Adelaja, who immediately ran away - thinking Putin's soldiers would simply walk in and arrest him. No one thought it would be a long, drawn out war.

Oh wow!! You didn’t tell me USA shares border with Libya, Syria, iraq, abnd etc.. Google about America regime changes in countries not their ally!! I would not debate further with you!!

DerrickzB:


Oh wow!! You didn’t tell me USA shares border with Libya, Syria, iraq, abnd etc.. Google about America regime changes in countries not their ally!! I would not debate further with you!!

That's the point! If ISA can engineer all those regime changes against entrenched dictators in faraway places, Russia can't engineer a small regime change against a comedian president in a next-door country full of Russians!