Zelensky puts salt on the wounds of Putin's defeat with surprise visit to key recaptured city

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the newly liberated city of Izium. The town was recaptured in a successful counter-offensive last week along with a number of other settlements

Putin's troops are on foot in Ukraine, allowing Zelensky to visit recaptured towns like Izium (

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky put salt on the wounds of Vladimir Putin by visiting a liberated city.

After his country's troops made a major breakthrough in their attempt to liberate the land from the invading Russian forces, Zelensky traveled to the city of Izium.

Much of it was destroyed, including the entire center of a residential building, despite Russian troops appearing to be on the defensive and using equipment from North Korea and Iran.

In Izium, Zelsnky said: The sight is very shocking but it's not for me."

The president highlighted recent alleged war crimes and atrocities in Ukrainian neighborhoods like Bucha, where bodies were found in mass graves. Some of them were found with gunshot wounds to the head and their hands tied behind their backs.

Zelensky spoke about the alleged atrocities committed in Bucha by Russian troops during his visit to Izium

"Because we started seeing the same images of Bucha, of the first deoccupied territories," Zelensky added. "So the same destroyed buildings, killed people."

Izium was a key strategic city for Russia, which used it as a launching pad for its attack on the south of the country and the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.

The city was recaptured in a massive counter-offensive by