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I don’t recall a single war when there were no shortages. I hope our enemies have even bigger shortages than we do,
Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s top military commander, said this month The situation on the frontline remains complicated,
the Ukrainian general staff wrote in its latest update Russia is likely trying to leverage the claimed seizure of Velyka Novosilka to influence Western perceptions of the situation on the battlefield in Donetsk Oblast, to advance narratives that Russian battlefield gains are inevitable and that Ukrainian positions are rapidly deteriorating,
they wrote in their latest update Let the Russians take pictures here, sooner or later we'll just come back and take photos with their corpses under that same sign,
They'll try to cross this imagined border to show: 'you see, for the first time in the war, we are in the Dnipropetrovsk region',
This is where our friends are, where we built our life,
she said, describing how she knows "every corner, every street" of her hometown What do they want? They'll just come to some place and turn it into a nightmare,
We thought so too -- before gliding bombs hit us,
she added in the village of Novopavlivka, one settlement in Russia's sights just over the border in the industrial Dnipropetrovsk region Some people still have this idea of a psychological border, they think that Russians won't cross,
the 51-year-old shop keeper told AFP I get up and think I'm dreaming. Was it a bad dream or is it my reality now? I just want it to be over, so that no one else feels this way ever again,
And then they'll go to somewhere else where they'll create another nightmare, and so on,
It had once been so far away from us. We were afraid, but not like we are now,
This piano came from my home. It's a piece of my childhood,
Russia is a master at using such psychological effects,
This will continue to deprive Moscow of revenues to finance its war. Russia needs to pay for the damage they are causing."
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in a post on X Our units, using the weather conditions, skillfully withdrew from areas where there was a threat of encirclement. This does not mean that we have completely left the city, the fighting in Velyka Novosilka continues . All actions are aimed at minimizing our own losses and maximum damage to the enemy,
Since 2018, we have refrained from public fundraising because we believe that donations are primarily needed for the military. Today, we are forced to publicly ask for support for the first time,
The enemy (…) will have no peace, any movement is cut off by shells and drones,
ISW has observed geolocated evidence to assess that Russian forces occupy 89% of the settlement, however. The Russian MoD notably is paying an abnormally high amount of fanfare to the claimed Russian seizure of Velyka Novosilka, very likely as part of informational efforts to shape Western perceptions of the battlefield situation in Ukraine and degrade international support for Ukraine."
