The occupiers' retreat from Ukraine is "inevitable, as is their punishment", President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening video address.
"But we have to hold on, we have to fight together on all fronts now - on the political, information and economic fronts, without showing weakness anywhere. We can withstand this war only together - absolutely everyone, every Ukrainian man, every Ukrainian woman," he said.
He accused russia of carrying out a deliberate missile strike on residential neighbourhoods in Chasiv Yar of Donetsk Region, which killed 15 people and trapped dozens more under the rubble.
"You know, Nazi murderers are found and brought to justice even when they are 90 or 100 years old. They are caught all over the world. Of course, we don't want to wait that long. But I give this example to show that punishment is inevitable for every russian murderer," he noted.