NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has warned that Ukraine and its supporters will face a harsh winter in the coming months, Voice of America reports..

But he urged the public in Western countries to keep faith in his efforts, saying that Russia's war against Ukraine has reached a critical moment in which Russia is losing some territory..

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“We need to at least prepare for this winter, because there is no sign that Russia will give up its goal of taking control of Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said, answering questions from the media, on the sidelines of a meeting of supporters of Ukraine led by the United States in the German.

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“The war in Ukraine is approaching a turning point as we see the Russian offensive in Donbas stalled. We see that the Ukrainians were able to fight back, strike back and win back part of the territory,” he said..

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that from September 1 to September 9, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to liberate more than 1,000 square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine from the occupying forces.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that over the past three days, Ukrainian defenders have de-occupied more than twenty settlements in the Kharkiv region. Our military wedged into the enemy defenses to a depth of 50 km.