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- “This will be further proof of the criminal nature of the alliance between Russia and Pyongyang,” Zelensky said
KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelensky, quoting Ukraine’s top commander, said early on Friday that Russian forces had tried to use mass air strikes as cover for intensified land-based attacks, but these were repelled.
“The Russians in fact tried, under cover of their mass air strikes, to make ground advances,” Zelensky said on the Telegram messaging app, referring to a report from top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi.
“When our forces were concentrating to the maximum on defending against missiles and drones, the Russians went ahead with intensified ground attacks. But they were repelled in worthy fashion.”
Russia used a North Korean ballistic missile for the deadly overnight strike that hit a residential building in Kyiv, Zelensky said on Thursday, citing preliminary information.
“If the information that this missile was made in North Korea is confirmed, this will be further proof of the criminal nature of the alliance between Russia and Pyongyang,” he said on X.