Ukraine ready to launch counteroffensive: "It's time to take back what's ours"

Ukraine ready to launch the much announced counter-offensive to reconquer the territories occupied by the Russians.

This is what a video posted on Telegram by the commander of the Armed Forces of Kiev Valeriy Zaluzhny suggests.

The footage shows Ukrainian soldiers preparing for battle by reciting a prayer, then Zaluzhny intervenes: " It's time to take back what's ours ," he says.

The statements to the BBC by the secretary of the National Security Council Oleksy Danilov , who is part of the war cabinet, give even more strength to the hypothesis: " We are ready to launch the counter-offensive , the Ukrainian government cannot be wrong on the decision because it is a historic opportunity that we cannot miss .

(Unioneonline/L)