‘You all deserve victory’: Zelenskiy visits Ukraine troops on eastern frontline

President makes rare publicised visit outside Kyiv, close to Sievierodonetsk, where Ukrainian forces have taken back ground from Russian forces

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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has visited the frontline close to the fiercest fighting between his country's troops and Russian forces in the east, as the UK and Spain said they would defy threats from the Kremlin by sending missile systems to help Kyiv.

Wearing his trademark khaki T-shirt and trousers, Zelenskiy visited the beleaguered city of Lysychansk on Sunday, just a few kilometres south from Sievierodonetsk, where Ukraine claims to be fighting back in one of the war's biggest ground battles.