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Most Russian attacks are taking place ... We are paying maximum defensive attention."
in the Donbas, ... Zelensky said, adding I was very scared, very scared. Shells were flying from all sides, helicopters, planes, fighter jets were flying over the house,
Nina Golinyaeva, an evacuee from Sudzha, told AFP In the evening I saw soldiers in the streets,
That’s the kind of mistake the Russian forces along the line of control typically don’t make,
This Ukrainian operation represents a very significant effort on the part of the Ukrainians to reset the status quo in the war, and change narratives about Ukraine prospects in this war,
The main risk is that the Ukrainians choose to try and consolidate and hold ground that lengthens the front line,
said Matthew Savill, military sciences director at the Royal United Services institute in London Russia seems to do quite poorly when it has to respond dynamically in a situation like this,
said military analyst Michael Kofman of the Carnegie Endowment in a podcast Regrettably, the group of forces protecting the border didn’t have its own intelligence assets,
he said on a channel of his messaging app It is hard to say goodbye to them, because we want them to live forever, to live among us as honoured sons of their homeland,
We have taken control of 1,150 square kilometres of territory and 82 settlements,
said top military commander Oleksandr Syrsky The situation in the Belgorod region continues to be extremely difficult and tense,
Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app We continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Kursk region. Currently, we control about 1,000 square kilometres of the territory of the Russian Federation,
Syrskii said in a video published on Zelenskyy’s Telegram account on Tuesday Today we have advanced well in the Kursk region. We are achieving our strategic goal,
Zelensky said in his evening address The attempts by enemy mobile units using armoured equipment to break through deeper into Russian territory have been repelled,
its Defense Ministry said The creation of a buffer zone in the Kursk region is a step to protect our border communities from daily hostile shelling,
It has to be done. The bolder our partners' decisions are, the less Putin will be able to do
I can confirm that the UN Human Rights Office has sent a request to the Russian authorities,
Liz Throssell, a spokesperson for the department, said in an email sent to AFP While the Ukrainians have reversed the public narrative about being on the defensive, ... it seems unlikely they would want to sustain a large incursion for months; they will have a decision to make about the best time to trade in the ground they have captured, and to what end.”
While in three weeks of February the enemy managed to advance approximately 15 kilometres [9 miles] in the Avdiivka direction, in the next four months – only a little more than 10 kilometres [6 miles],
Russia has brought war to others, now it’s coming home. Ukraine has always wanted only peace, and we will definitely ensure peace.”
In an evening address, he said