Zelensky says the situation is still difficult in Ukraine and expels security officials | World

In a rare reference to domestic dissent, Zelensky also said in a video address that he had expelled two senior members of the National Security Service on the grounds that they were traitors.

Zelensky claimed that the Russians are so evil and eager to destroy that they appear from another world, “monsters that burn and plunder, attack and intend to kill.”

The Russia She says she is doing a “special operation” to disarm and “disarm” the neighboring country. Moscow denies Kyiv’s accusations that Russian forces are attacking civilians.

Zelensky said that Ukrainian forces pushed the Russians back from Kyiv and Chernihiv – two cities that Moscow declared would not be the focus of the attacks as it sought to secure the breakaway regions of Donbass and Luhansk in the southeast.

“There will be battles in the future,” he declared. “We still have to go down a very difficult path to get everything we want.”

The situation in the south and in the Donbass remains very difficult.”