The Ukrainian president, VolodÃmir Zelenski, affirmed today that the expected counter-offensive to recover territories occupied by Russian troops is already “underway”, although without revealing the scope or details about its status.
The Ukrainian leader affirmed that he would not give information about “the state” of this military operation, to questions asked during a joint press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who arrived in Kiev this Saturday on an unannounced visit. previously.
Russian President Vladimir Putin assured yesterday that the counter-offensive had already begun, to then add that the Ukrainian attacks of the past few days on the front had “failed”.
Since kyiv had not confirmed until then a start of such operations.
In his press conference with Zelenski, Trudeu announced a new military aid package for Ukraine, as well as his country’s participation in the training of Ukrainian pilots in handling F-16 fighter jets.
This new aid package will be worth 500 million dollars, reports the Ukrinform portal, and will include 299 AIM-7 air defense missiles, according to the Ukranian portal, which refers these details to a Canadian government statement from Ottawa, coinciding with the visit .
The North American country is also participating in the organization of a logistics and maintenance center in Poland for Leopard tanks supplied by Western allies to Ukraine.
The Canadian delegation’s visit comes as Zelensky is reinforcing efforts to alleviate the effects of the flooding caused by the blowing up of the Kakhovka dam and while intense fighting is taking place on the front lines.
