Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, said the situation in Donbas was “extremely difficult” as Russia intensified its attack in eastern Ukraine.

“All the power of the Russian army is focused on this attack,” Zelensky said in an address in the late hours of May 24.

Russian forces are aiming to destroy everything in Liman, Popasna, Severodonjeck and Sloviansk, the Ukrainian president said.

“But based on the interception of their telephone conversations, we have heard that they are aware that this war does not make sense to Russia and in strategic terms, their military has no chance,” he said.

According to Zelensky, it will take time and “extraordinary effort” for the Ukrainians to break the Russian advantage in terms of equipment and weapons, as he again called on Western countries to supply his country with heavy weapons.

Missile launchers, tanks, anti-ship weapons and other weapons for Ukraine are the best investment in maintaining stability in the world and preventing the “serious crises” that Russia is planning to cause, Zelensky said.

Earlier on May 24, in an address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Zelensky said Russia had carried out almost 1,500 missile strikes and over 3,000 air strikes against Ukraine in the first three months of the war.

Two senior Russian officials seem to have acknowledged that Moscow’s progress has been slower than expected even though they vowed that the offensive would achieve its goals.

Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council, said the Russian government was not “following deadlines”. Meanwhile, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, during a meeting of a Russian-led security alliance involving the former Soviet states, said Moscow had deliberately slowed its offensive in order to allow residents of besieged cities. to be evacuated.

As Russia’s military campaign continues, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said the ongoing fighting in the east could determine the fate of the state.