Ukraine's Zelenskiy says Russia will have difficulty fulfilling planned advances

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Russia's military had failed to achieve aims it set out last year and would have difficulty

fulfilling advances he said Moscow hoped to achieve.



Zelenskiy, addressing journalists in Kyiv, said Moscow's plans of seizing all of eastern Ukraine and areas further south remained unchanged.



But he said Moscow also hoped to advance towards the southeastern ‌city of Dnipro and was also considering how to make gains in the southern Odesa region on the Black Sea.



He said Ukraine had secured maps outlining Russian plans for 2026-2027 but the maps had "nothing in common with reality" because Russia could not accomplish the task.



"We understand what they want. We understand that their directions remain current - the occupation of the east of our country, specifically the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," he said.