'Most attention is paid to Pokrovsk, Toretsk directions': Zelenskyy on frontline situation

He wrote about this on Telegram.

According to the president, he held his first meeting with the Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, and the General Staff Chief, Anatoliy Barhylevych. It concerned the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian front.

"In detail in each direction. Most attention is paid to Pokrovsk and Toretsk. Provision of our brigades and specific defensive actions. I am grateful to all the units that are really fighting steadfastly in their positions," Zelenskyy said.

He added that they also discussed the operation in the Kursk region. According to the president, the objectives of the operation are being realized.

"We are building up the Ukrainian long-range force": Zelenskyy on the topic of the closed meeting

The president also said that he had another meeting with Syrskyi, SBU Head Vasyl Maliuk, Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate Kyrylo Budanov, and Minister of Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshyn.

Zelenskyy emphasized that all the details of the meeting were private.

"The only thing worth mentioning is my gratitude to all our developers and manufacturers of long-range weapons. We are building up Ukraine's long-range force," the president emphasized.

• Meanwhile, Vitaliy Sarantsev, a spokesman for the Kharkiv grouping of troops, said that the Russian forces had begun forming a new volunteer brigade to support their North group operating in the Kharkiv region.