"We prayed half a year for you to come back to us." As the residents of Balakliya met the Armed Forces - Video

The leader of the head of the leader and the leading role in the film Oleg Sentsov Rhinocero Sergey Filimonov, who is now defending Ukraine, posted a video from the released Balakliya Kharkiv region on Telegram. In the video, locals leave a multi -storey building, hug and thank the defenders of Ukraine with tears and offer to treat them with fritters. "Well done guys! . . We prayed half a year so you would come back to us," they say. Video of the day "A little later . . .

You just in case sit in the basement, please, because there can be still shelling. But we are already here, ”the defenders replies. On the evening of September 8, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a video with Ukrainian servicemen who raise the flag of Ukraine above Balaklia. Balakliya area, and especially located near the city of Izium, are important logistics nodes of the army of the terrorist country to provide Russian forces in the Donbass.

In the evening address, the Head of State said that from September 1, the Armed Forces had released more than 1 thousand square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine and dozens of settlements from the Russian invaders. Earlier, the General Staff confirmed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had released more than 20 settlements in the Kharkiv region and were imprisoned in the defense of the invaders for 50 km.