The battles against the Russian invasion army are ‘difficult’, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, hailing however what he has termed ‘progress’ reported as part of the June counteroffensive campaign. „Last week was difficult, but we are making headway. We’re taking it one step at a time”, Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram. Previously, deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said that „Ukraine has liberated 28.4 square kilometers in the south and 9 square kilometers in the east over the past week”, taking the total area liberated by the Ukrainian army since the launch of the counteroffensive to 158 square kilometers. „The enemy is fighting back, the current battle is very though”, deputy minister Maliar went on to say.
