No one knows how long the war in Ukraine will last: Zelensky

Kyiv, June 12 (agency) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that no one knows how long the war will last in his country, but Ukrainian forces are dashing hopes of Russian troops by fighting them in eastern Ukraine. In his video address, Zelensky said he was proud of his defenders of Ukraine fighting to stop Russian troops in the Donbass region. “Remember how they expected to capture the Donbass at the beginning of May,” he said. He said that it was the 108th day of the war and that at the start of the war, after failing to capture the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Russia largely focused on capturing the country’s southern coast in addition to parts of the Russian-speaking Donbass. focused. Zelensky said that when the end of the war is not in sight, Ukraine should do everything possible to defend itself. Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the separatist-declared Luhansk People’s Republic, said Ukrainian fighters remained in an industrial area of ​​the city, including a chemical plant where civilians had taken refuge due to Russian shelling.