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Poorly trained Russian soldiers are being used as cannon fodder in an attempt to overwhelm strong Ukrainian defences.
In a post on social media, the MoD said Our Ukrainian drones work exactly as they should, but unfortunately, there are things that cannot be done with drones alone,
the Ukrainian president said in his nightly address Wednesday It concerns the destruction of the Russian army logistics and the draining of their reserves,
he said in an evening address If the objective was to divert the Russian effort from the Donbas, it's failed so far,
said Yohann Michel, a French military expert and research fellow at the IESD Institute in Lyon, France The Kursk region operation - we are strengthening our positions and replenishing 'exchange fund' for Ukraine,
Zelenskyy said on X after Syrskyi's report Ordinary Russians are seeing Russian civilians under Ukrainian control, Ukrainian military units on Russian soil, which has been a real shock,
Without their participation and direct support, Kyiv would not have ventured into Russian territory,
Patrushev told the Izvestia newspaper Samples of small arms manufactured by the United States and Sweden have been seized at the liquidation site of a Ukrainian sabotage group near the village of Kremyanoe in the Kursk region,
RIA reported a Russian security official said There is a big difference between this and the type of war that Russia is leading,
Russia doesn’t want any negotiations; it gives ultimatums,
Ukraine is not planning to occupy this territory. This is temporary,
Russia is still limited in manpower,
We don't know what to do. We cry day and night, every day. We don't know what we are going to do,
said 70-year-old Zinaida Tarasyuk, another evacuee collecting humanitarian aid The enemy is rapidly approaching the outskirts of Pokrovsk,
I was very scared, very scared,
Nina Golinyaeva, a former resident of the border town of Sudzha, told AFP at an evacuation centre in Kursk city, the regional capital We will continue to maintain communication with the international community to play a constructive role for the political settlement of the crisis,
Let's sit down at the negotiating table and end this brawl,
The operation in the Kursk region was also planned with the participation of NATO and Western special services,
he was quoted as saying, without offering evidence Washington's efforts have created all the prerequisites for Ukraine to lose its sovereignty and lose part of its territories,
They have also begun to construct additional defensive positions in an effort to prevent Ukrainian advances,