‘Shut up’: Ukraine’s foreign minister hits back at critics of ‘slow pace’ counteroffensive

Ukraine’s foreign minister has sharply rebuked critics of his country’s counteroffensive, challenging critics to ‘try to liberate one square centimetre by themselves’. Speaking at a press conference in Toledo, next to the Spanish foreign minister, Kuleba said: ‘Criticising the slow pace of [the] counteroffensive equals spitting into the face of [the] Ukrainian soldier who sacrifices his life every day, moving forward and liberating one kilometre of Ukrainian soil after another.’ He added: ‘I would recommend all critics to shut up’

Russia-Ukraine war: critics of counteroffensive are ‘spitting in the faces of soldiers’, says Kyiv – as it happened