News - Yemen: Six months after Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine, West-backed President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said his country clamors for "victory, not peace", while vowing to take back Crimea from Russia.

Zelensky's comments came during the Independence Day address as Ukraine’s international allies lavished praise and announced new military packages.

“We will fight until the end,” he said in a recorded emotional speech to mark 31 years of Ukrainian independence from the Soviet rule, vowing that his country would not be making “any concession or compromise” to Russia. 
“We don’t care what army you have, we only care about our land. We will fight for it until the end,” the embattled president added.
 
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine in late February, following Kiev’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements and Moscow’s recognition of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

At the time, Russian President Vladimir Putin said one of the goals of what he called a “special military operation” was to “de-Nazify” Ukraine.

Since the operation was launched, the United States and its European allies have supplied a large cache of advanced weapons to Ukraine and imposed waves of unprecedented sanctions on Moscow, despite Russia's repeated warnings that such measures would only prolong the war.

The Russian military says it has fully captured Luhansk and has concentrated its efforts to seize the other region, making rapid advances.

The Ukrainian president, clad in a olive-green version of the 'vyshyvanka', the traditional garb of Ukraine, and embroidered with an armored vehicle and a tank, made his remarks as the festivities were subdued with mass gatherings canceled and Ukrainians across the country told to be vigilant.