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Drones have changed the nature of warfare: they create ‘kill zones’ where anything that moves is instantly destroyed. Ukraine has learned from 2022 when Russian forces advanced through Sumy, so that scenario will not happen again,
Stupak said
Fortifications are Ukraine’s weak spot. We've been making the same mistakes for three years. Either they build them in the right place but poorly, or they build them well but in the wrong location, or the concrete fortifications turn out to be too thin. Information about fortifications is classified. We can only hope they exist in Sumy,
Stupak saidRussia’s attacks on Ukraine, despite its propaganda statements, do not stop,
he wrote alongside the photos
Yesterday evening, another Russian strike hit our energy infrastructure. We in Ukraine face this every day and night ... And despite Putin's words about allegedly being ready to stop the attacks, nothing has changed,
Zelenskyy told European leaders on ThursdayWe really wanted to help and to replace those men who went to fight and to protect Ukraine,
Nadiya Moskalenko told NBC News
We want this to happen,
Moskalenko said of the peace agreementWe always store water in advance,
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The United States could be very helpful in running those plants with its electricity and utility expertise. American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure,
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a press briefing
All nuclear power plans belong to the people of Ukraine,
Zelenskyy said, pointingI have strongly requested to President Putin that their lives be spared. This would be a horrible massacre, one not seen since World War II. God bless them all!!!
Trump saidThis is likely part of Putin's effort to make the point that they are winning the war and that resistance is useless and that it is inevitable that Russia's greater strength will bring victory. That resonates with Trump,
said Mark Cancian, a retired Marine Corps colonel and senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies
The mud has disappeared … there is more vegetation, and there is less visibility. Therefore, the enemy is trying to improve its tactical position,
said Voloshyn
Not only will we have liberated our own land, but we will also establish the buffer zone that [Putin] has tasked us with creating,
Apty Alaudinov, commander of the Chechen Akhmat special forces unit, told Rossiya-1 television networkUp until recently, we really didn’t have consensus around these two aspects, the energy and infrastructure ceasefire and the Black Sea moratorium on firing. And today, we got to that place, and I think it’s a relatively short distance to a full ceasefire from there,
Witkoff saidThe current front lines do not provide the strategic depth that Ukraine will need to reliably defend against renewed Russian aggression,
wrote the ISW
We can talk about what’s right and wrong, and we can also talk about the reality of the situation on the ground,
said Waltz in an interview with ABC News on SundayThere is a road running from Orekhov to Kamenskoye through Stepove, which the enemy constantly used … They will have to move along longer routes. This brings about positive changes for us on the Zaporizhia front as a whole,
Vladimir Rogov told the Russian state news agency TASSUkraine would likely need an even larger military with greater capabilities to play its critical role in deterring and, if necessary, defeating future aggression,” while “the US and Europe would likely need to provide military aid to Ukraine more rapidly, in much larger volumes, and at higher cost”.
It concluded
It is crucial that this zone be no less than 20 kilometres wide [10 miles], and preferably 30 kilometres [20 miles], extending deep into Ukrainian territory,
a battalion deputy commander, Oleg Ivanov, told state news service TASSReports of the alleged ‘encirclement’ … are false and fabricated by the Russians for political manipulation and to exert pressure on Ukraine and its partners.”
Ukraine’s general staff denied the claim, saying