Ukrainian forces have seized back full control of the town of Irpin, a few miles from Kyiv, the local mayor said.
Media24flashnews EU Team have it that Irpin is a commuter town west of the capital that has seen heavy fighting and has come under intense Russian bombardment since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine last month.
A local local Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn said: We have good news today – Irpin has been liberated.
We understand that there will be more attacks on our town and we will defend it courageously.
Markushyn spoke to CNN today: Irpin was freed last night.
Now we need to clear the town totally. There are wounded Russian soldiers. They are offering to surrender or they will be destroyed. Irpin is a staging area for an attack. We will next liberate Bucha, Vorzel and Hostomel.
The information could not immediately be verified.
Media24flashnews EU Team have it that Shaun Walker has written about some of the last residents of Irpin, people who were too old, too frail or too sick to leave the town that has seen no gas, water or electricity and almost no medicine since early March.
In an interview Media24flashnews EU Team held with President Zelenskiy’s adviser, He said
Ukraine is not willing to sacrifice its “territorial integrity”, a senior adviser to the Ukrainian president said, on the further talks between Ukraine and Russia.
Alexander Rodnyansky, an adviser to President Zelenskiy, told our EU Team at the interview that “now the pressure is on Russia”.
He said Clearly, they cannot sustain this war for years and their morale is so low they can’t even keep up their supplies and logistics.
Ukraine would not sacrifice its “territorial integrity”, he added.
If you ask the people who live in these areas, they wouldn’t want to live in Russia. How can we leave them? Let alone the whole idea of slicing up our country.
Rodnyansky suggested that a “more concrete” version of the “Budapest memorandum” – which gave Ukraine security assurances – would be necessary to secure peace.
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