Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited soldiers on the southern front line during a working trip to the Mykolaiv region, he said on Saturday, without specifying when the visit took place.

In his trademark khaki T-shirt, the President handed out medals and posed for selfies with the servicemen in what appeared to be an underground shelter, according to a video posted to his official Telegram account.

“Our brave men. Each one of them is working flat out,” he said. “We will definitely hold out! We will definitely win!”

Russian forces reached the outskirts of the regional capital Mykolaiv in early March but were then driven back to the eastern and southern edges of the region, where fighting is ongoing. Zelensky’s office said the President also visited the city and inspected the destroyed regional administration building

New Wave actor dead

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French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, whose career was launched at the same time as Brigitte Bardot with the 1956 film And God Created Woman died Friday at the age of 91, his ex-wife Nadine Trintignant said.

“He was somebody special,” she told BFM TV.

Trintignant received the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Festival for the Costa Gavras film Z and a Cesar Award for best actor in 2013 for the Michael Haneke movie Amour. Trintignant was one of the leading actors of the French “New Wave”.

Reuters