“I wish to stress as soon as extra that our new weapon choices, together with Palianytsia, is our life like technique to act whereas a few of our companions are sadly delaying choices,” Zelenskyy informed a information convention.
Ukrainians say the phrase “Palianytsia”, a sort of Ukrainian bread, is simply too tough to pronounce for Russians and it has been used, typically humorously, in the course of the conflict as a technique to inform Ukrainians and Russians aside.
“It is going to be very tough for Russia, tough to even pronounce what precisely has hit it,” Zelenskyy mentioned of the drone missile.
TOP COMMANDER PROMOTED
In a decree, Zelenskyy promoted his high commander, Colonel Normal Oleksandr Syrskyi, to the rank of normal, a tacit gesture of reward after Ukraine’s lightning cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk area launched on Aug 6.
Slammed by Russia as an escalation and main provocation, Ukraine’s incursion has captured greater than 90 settlements within the Kursk area in response to Kyiv, the most important invasion of Russia since World Conflict Two.
Talking at a joint information convention with Poland’s and Lithuania’s leaders, Zelenskyy informed reporters the operation had partly been a preventive transfer to cease Russian plans to seize the northern metropolis of Sumy.
Aside from capturing prisoners of conflict and making a “buffer zone”, Zelenskyy mentioned the operation had different aims that he couldn’t disclose publicly.
Polish president Andrzej Duda confirmed that Polish PT-91 Twardy tanks given to Kyiv by Warsaw had been participating within the preventing in Kursk area.
