“We are currently gaining time for the supply of weapons, in order for our army to be strengthened,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Ukrainian intelligence services and the army do not agree with the conclusions of the West that the city has no significant strategic value, Zelensky added.
On February 7, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russian troops were successfully developing military operations in the areas of Vugledar and Artyomovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Denis Pushilin, interim head of the DPR, said earlier that Russian forces were entrenched near Ugledar from three directions.
In the area of this city, several supply routes for Ukrainian troops were killed.
As Bloomberg wrote, officials from the United States and European countries believe that the Armed Forces of Ukraine may soon retreat from the city.