Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited on Tuesday (August 15) the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia and met troops fighting in the counteroffensive against Russian forces in the south.

Zelenskiy was shown in a video with senior Ukrainian soldiers examining a battlefield map at what the president's office said was the frontline command point of the 46th separate airmobile brigade near the town of Orikhiv.

Ukraine launched a counter-offensive against Russian forces in the south and southeast at the start of June, hoping to cut Russian forces in half by advancing south towards the Sea of Azov.

More than two months into the operation, Kyiv has retaken a string of villages but no major settlements, acknowledging that its progress has been slower than desired because of prepared Russian defences and what it says is a shortage of weapons.

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