Zelenskyy in his nightly video address, quote, " There was a clear position of the entire command: Strengthen the sector and destroy the occupiers to the maximum."
The Pentagon's insistence on keeping troop numbers low left the occupiers too few men to stop the looting of 17 out of 23 ministries in the Iraqi capital.
Earlier, the Ukrainian said their forces were carrying out a series of small scale armored attacks against Russian occupiers, but denied this was the long awaited counter offensive.