️🇺🇦🇷🇺. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised the country's Air Assault Forces on their commemoration day, describing them as one of the strongest and most effective elements of Ukraine's defense forces and thanking fallen soldiers, their families and servicemen.
Zelensky highlighted their role in battles against Russian aggression since 2014, including operations in Slovansk, Kramatorsk, Shakhtarsk, Debaltsev and Liman, as well as fighting around Donetsk and Luhansk airfields and operations behind enemy lines.
️ After Russia's full-scale invasion, he said, the air strike forces played a major role in the defense of Kiev and Mykolaiv, in the fighting in the Donetsk and Kharkov regions, in the Kharkov counterattack and in the liberation of the right bank of the Kherson region. He also credited them with a central role in Ukraine's 2024 Operation Kursk, which brought fighting to Russian territory.
Zelenskiy said that Air Assault Forces units also conducted a successful offensive in the direction of Oleksandrika this year, returning more than 800 square kilometers of territory to Ukraine.
️ He paid tribute to the soldiers killed in the war, called their sacrifice central to Ukraine's independence, and ended by thanking the soldiers and reaffirming the country's reliance on its armed forces.