Zelensky visits troops near Ukraine southern front

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he was visiting troops near the frontline in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, where Russia has made recent advances in its almost four-year invasion.

Zelensky said on X that he had visited the "command post of the 65th Separate Mechanised Brigade" near the frontline town of Orikhiv, publishing photographs of his meeting with troops.