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The situation in the Belgorod region continues to be extremely difficult and tense,
Gladkov said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app The purpose of this operation is to preserve the lives of our children, to protect the territory of Ukraine from Russian strikes."
It's creating a real dilemma for Putin, and we've been in direct contact, constant contact, with the Ukrainians. That's all I'm going to say about it while it's active."
Despite difficult and intense battles, our forces continue to advance in the Kursk region, and our state’s ‘exchange fund’ is growing. Seventy-four settlements are under Ukrainian control,
Everything is being executed according to the plan,
Syrskyi replied, without elaborating It should be emphasised that the (Kursk) operation ... helps the front line because it does not allow Russia to transfer additional units to the Donetsk region, complicates its military logistics.”
It’s creating a real dilemma for Putin,
I’ll say it straight: the crisis has not yet been overcome,
Russians should have enough reserves, so that they should not be forced to weaken the ‘centre’ group of forces, which is currently pressuring the Ukrainian lines near Toretsk and Pokrovsk,
It has become too loud, I’m scared for the children, they need to live a normal life,
Our operations are purely a security matter for Ukraine – the liberation of the border area from the Russian military,
Zelenskyy said in an overnight address This conclusion will narrow the flexibility Russia has enjoyed in committing manpower and material to its ongoing offensive efforts in Ukraine, and the Russian military command will have to consider the requirements for border defense when determining what resources it can allocate to future large-scale offensive and defensive efforts in Ukraine,
The Ukrainian operation in Kursk Oblast [has forced] a decision-point on the Kremlin and the Russian military command about whether to view the thousand-kilometer-long international border with northeastern Ukraine as a legitimate frontline that Russia must defend, instead of a dormant area of the theater, as they have treated it since Fall 2022,
Russia has spent considerable resources to build fortifications along the international border area but has not allocated the manpower and material to significantly man and defend those fortifications,
It is only fair to destroy Russian terrorists where they are, where they launch their strikes from,
the Ukrainian president said We need appropriate permissions from our partners to use long-range weapons,
We see how useful this can be for bringing peace closer,
Russia has relocated some of its units from both Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine’s south."
Dmytro Lykhoviy told Politico What the Russian forces are doing in Ukraine amounts to genocide and inhumane crimes,
Ukraine has no interest in taking over the Kursk region,