Ukraine’s recently-inaugurated president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has visited the war zone in Donbas for the first time as a sitting head of the state, the presidential press service reported late on May 27.

During the one-day trip, Zelenskiy visited the city of Schastya near the frontline in Luhansk Oblast, some 650 kilometers southeast of Kyiv, and forward military strongpoints near Stanytsia Luhanska, an entry checkpoint into the Russian-occupied city of Luhansk.