Updated On: 10 July, 2023 07:52 AM IST | Kyiv | Agencies
Brings back those guarding steel plant who were taken into Russian captivity

President Zelensky with his ministers and the released defenders of the steel plant. Pic/AP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky marked the 500th day of the war Saturday by hailing the country’s soldiers in a video from a Black Sea island that became the symbol of Ukraine’s resilience in the face of the Russian invasion.
Speaking from Snake Island, Zelensky honored the Ukrainian soldiers who fought for the island and all other defenders of the country, saying that reclaiming control of the island “is a great proof that Ukraine will regain every bit of its territory.”