{"id":1502252,"date":"2022-06-03T10:10:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T14:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502252"},"modified":"2022-06-03T10:10:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T14:10:27","slug":"zelensky-russia-controls-1-5th-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-russia-controls-1-5th-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky: Russia Controls 1\/5th of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzelensky-russia-controls-1-5th-of-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502252&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday that Russian forces now control roughly one-fifth of his country as fighting rages on for nearly the hundredth day.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/promova-prezidenta-ukrayini-v-palati-deputativ-lyuksemburgu-75533\">told Luxembourg\u2019s legislature<\/a>\u00a0that Russian troops have entered \u201c3,620 settlements in Ukraine\u201d of which\u00a01,017 of them have already been liberated and another\u00a02,603 are to be released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of today, about 20 percent of our territory is under the control of the occupiers,\u201d\u00a0Zelenskyy said. \u201cAlmost 125 thousand square kilometers. This is much larger than the area of all the Benelux Countries combined. About 300 thousand square kilometers are bestrewn with mines and unexploded ordnance. Almost 12 million Ukrainians have become internally displaced persons. More than 5 million, mostly women and children, have gone abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite Russian troops having taken over large swaths of the country, the Ukrainian president noted that Ukrainian forces have shown \u201cextraordinary bravery\u201d and refused to surrender to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have stopped and are gradually pushing the army of invaders, which was recently considered the second strongest in the world, out of our territory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy\u2019s comments come shortly after he visited\u00a0Kharkiv on Sunday, marking his\u00a0first public appearance outside Kyiv since the conflict began.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/prezident-ukrayini-vidvidav-peredovi-poziciyi-na-shodi-krayi-75445\">In a statement<\/a>, his office said that the president met with the members of the military and presented troops with state awards \u201cand valuable gifts\u201d while thanking them for their service.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit, the Head of the Kharkiv\u00a0Regional Military Administration Oleg Synegubov said that currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/glava-derzhavi-proviv-naradu-shodo-potochnoyi-situaciyi-v-ha-75449\">31 percent<\/a> of the region\u2019s territory is temporarily occupied by Russian forces while 5 percent has been liberated from Russian soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not yet able to fully inspect some of the liberated settlements, conduct full-fledged demining and begin rebuilding critical infrastructure, as shelling continues. Where we can do it remotely\u2014we do it,\u201d said Synegubov.<\/p>\n<p>Synegubov added that Russian forces had destroyed\u00a02,229 high-rise buildings, of which 225 were completely destroyed. The northern and eastern districts of\u00a0Kharkiv have suffered the\u00a0most damage and destruction, with a total of 30.2 percent of the total housing being impacted, according to the RMA head.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit, Zelenskyy, among other things, inspected the destroyed residential buildings in the Saltivka district of Kharkiv and said that new houses in the city must be built with bomb shelters.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president\u2019s latest comments come after\u00a0Russian troops have seized control of\u00a0more than two-thirds of the\u00a0strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk after days of fierce fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Serhiy Haidai, Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, confirmed via <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/luhanskaVTSA\/3087\">Telegram<\/a> on June 1 that Moscow\u2019s forces have taken over 70 percent of the city, which is situated in the Donbass.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/ukraine-russia-war-children-hiding-sievierodonetsk-factory\">reports<\/a> state that roughly 800\u00a0people, including children, are hiding from Russian shelling beneath a chemical factory in the city.<\/p>\n<p>If Russian forces were to completely take over\u00a0Sievierodonetsk,\u00a0Russian president Vladimir Putin would effectively control\u00a0all of Luhansk, which, along with\u00a0the Donetsk collectively makes up the Donbass.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy told Luxembourg\u2019s legislature on Thursday that Russian forces have \u201calready destroyed almost the entire Donbass\u201d which he said was \u201conce one of the most powerful industrial centers in Europe\u201d but is now completely devastated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe occupiers are destroying it city after city. Just look at the city of Mariupol. There were half a million people, ordinary peaceful life in an important industrial city. Now there are burnt-out ruins. And we still don\u2019t even know exactly how many of our people were killed by the occupiers. At least tens of thousands\u2014tens of thousands in a little less than 100 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what it means, in fact, to characterize this war as full-scale. And that is why we are so loud urging the world to support us\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-katabella-roberts\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Katabella Roberts is a reporter currently based in Turkey. She covers news and business for The Epoch Times, focusing primarily on the United States.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday that Russian forces now control roughly one-fifth of his country as fighting rages on for nearly the hundredth day.Zelenskyy\u00a0told Luxembourg\u2019s legislature\u00a0that Russian troops<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}