Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine is ready to launch a sensational counteroffensive to take back areas of Russian occupied territory. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Zelenskyy insisted: ‘We strongly believe that we will succeed’. ‘I don’t know how long it will take,’ he continued. ‘To be honest, it can go a variety of ways, completely... 

Ukraine has warned residents in southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia to evacuate as it prepares to launch a counteroffensive to retake the area. The Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions were quickly occupied by Russian troops in late February after they crossed the bridge from Russian-annexed Crimea. Late on Friday night, Iryna Vereshchuk, the deputy prime minister for the ministry of reintegration of temporarily...