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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Pavel Polityuk and Abdelaziz Boumzar

Ukraine's Zelenskiy says it will fight for all territory amid fierce battle in east

FILE PHOTO: A Ukrainian service member shoots from an automatic grenade launcher at a position on the front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near Bakhmut, Donbas region, Ukraine June 5, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Ukraine will fight to recover all its territory occupied by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, as his troops struggled to hold their ground in bloody street-to-street fighting in the city of Sievierodonetsk.

"We have already lost too many people to simply cede our territory," Zelenskiy said by video link at an event hosted by Britain's Financial Times newspaper. "We have to achieve a full deoccupation of our entire territory."

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