The effects of Western long-range rocket systems are being felt on the front line, as the Ukrainian leader said Russian losses will only increase.
, a US made and supplied multiple rocket launcher that analysts said had been used over the weekend to target Russian forces.Mr Zelenskyy said that his forces were advancing in several tactical directions - in particular in the south, in the Kherson region, in the Zaporizhzhia region - and that Ukrainians"will not give up our land".
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian flag has been raised on Snake Island in the Black Sea after defence forces liberated it from Russian troops. The blue and yellow colours flutter once more over the strategic island, which has been in the spotlight many times during the war - not least whenwhen it demanded that Ukrainian troops surrender early in the conflict.
In a reference to that episode the flag had a message to the Russian warship written on it, saying that the island is Ukrainian and signed by the head of Odesa region Maxim Marchenko.
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