Ukraine has vowed “retribution” in Russia as they continue to punch their way through Russian territory gaining more ground.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree that bans the Russian linked Orthodox Church in Ukraine and called the new law a “liberation from Moscow’s devils,” The Moscow Times reports.
Today Kyiv and Moscow exchanged 230 prisoners as Ukraine marks their 33rd Independence Days from Russia.
President Zelensky said, “Another 115 of our defenders have returned home today. These are soldiers of the National Guard, the Armed Forces, the Navy, the State Border Guard Service.”
A published video shows President Zelensky standing in a forested area close to where Ukrainian forces breached the border into Russia on 6 August.
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Selensky said, “Russia was seeking one thing: to destroy us…
“Instead, today we celebrate the 33rd Independence Day of Ukraine and what the enemy brought to our land has now returned to its home.”
He then gave Vladimir Putin a direct warning that Russia will find out “what retribution is” and said the Russian leader is the “sick man from Red Square who constantly threatens everyone with the red button.”
Shortly after Zelensky warned the Kremlin that Ukrainian forces “will reach any point” inside the Russian Federation as thousands are now inside the Kursk region.
President Zelensky said in a message to make Independence Day on Saturday, “Our enemy will also know what the Ukrainian-way retaliation is. Worthy, symmetrical, long-ranged.
“They will know that sooner or later a Ukrainian response will reach any point in the Russian Federation that is a source of danger to the life of our state and our people.”
Then the Ukrainian military intelligence revealed that they undertook a “successful” attack on an ammunition depot blowing up 5,000 tonnes of Russian ammunition which created a huge mushroom cloud that lit up the night sky in Russia’s southern Voronezh region.
Voronezh Governor Alexander Gusev declared a state of emergency and some 200 people were evacuated from a village close to the Voronezh region.
