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NATO and the West are concerned that the Ukraine war could last for years.
There are even reports from foreign media that we can face a long-term confrontation without an end to the war like on the Korean Peninsula.
In the midst of this, Ukrainian President Zelensky personally visited the front lines of the Russian-controlled southern region to encourage resistance.
Correspondent Won Jong-jin.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited southern Mykolayu and Odessa for the first time since the start of the war.
The two port towns adjacent to the Black Sea are Ukraine's food export windows, and have been under heavy attack by Russian forces since the beginning of the war.
Here, where the battle is still ongoing, President Zelensky emphasized that beyond defending his remaining territories, he will also retake territories lost to Russia.
[Volodimir Zelensky/President of Ukraine: We will not give the southern part to anyone.
We will take back all of our possessions, and the Black Sea will belong to Ukraine.]
President Zelensky, who was in Kiiu at the beginning of the war, has recently increased the number of public front-line visits, showing his will to fight.
The Ukrainian military also said on social media that it had defended against a Russian attack in the fierce battlefield eastern Severodonetsk, and the Russian announcement that the entire area was under control was a lie.
However, the New York Times reported that the bodies of the dead were piling up to the extent that there were not enough cemeteries, mainly in battlefields such as Lviv, the western city.