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We're going to Vinnytsia first,
a woman boarding a train evacuating people from Pokrovsk tells Ukrainian journalists Unfortunately, the Kursk offensive has no direct and big impact actually on the operations of the Russians in the Donbas region,
They are throwing all available forces at Pokrovsk to achieve a certain propaganda effect,
Syrskyi had evidently drawn conclusions from Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive during the summer of 2023, when Ukraine consulted with the U.S. and other Western partners, deployed newly formed brigades and telegraphed its plans with videos and public comments. Ukraine’s top military commander gathered senior officers for a secret meeting in late July where he disclosed an audacious plan to revive the country’s flagging war effort
Ukraine couldn’t afford simply to keep trying to buy time by throwing more men into defensive lines... You are constantly having to make decisions about priorities, where to accept risk,
said retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, the former commander of the US Army in Europe Russia cannot step up the war from its own soil, while increasing attacks on the civilian population, and expect Ukraine not to seek to remove the source of the threat,
Ukraine has the right to self-defense against Russian attacks, ... This does not preclude its right to project force into Russian territory, so long as action complies with international law."
said Fergus Eckersley, U.K. political coordinator at the U.N But it is Ukraine's decision how to defend itself,
Ukraine did not coordinate its planning for the Kursk offensive with NATO beforehand,
he said, ... according to a translation Now, it's if only the U.S. would allow Ukraine to use the ATACMS deeper into Russia,
We need the implementation of air defense agreements for Ukraine. This is about saving lives,
One woman and four men died of their wounds on the spot before an ambulance arrived,
regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a post on Telegram We need strong decisions from our partners to stop this terror,
Zelensky said in a post on social media We need long-range capabilities,
he added, referring to Kiev's appeals to allies to lift restrictions on the use of Western-supplied missiles inside Russian territory and deliver more longer-range weapons Ukraine has a right to defend itself. And according to international law, this right does not stop at the border,
Stoltenberg told the paper, This simply means that the Russian leadership continues to move towards the goal of seizing the territory of all four oblasts [Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Kherson – ed.], which they consider their own,
And this is what they want to achieve in a convenient time frame, while the weather is still favourable for military operations,
The detachment's tasks include not only ensuring security, but also participating in the life support of the resettled areas in order to support the remaining people during this difficult time,
The formation of these new BARS (Russian Army Combat Reserve) volunteer detachments is consistent with the Kremlin's apparent strategy to avoid re-deploying experienced or combat effective units engaged in fighting in the Pokrovsk or Toretsk directions to Kursk Oblast due to concerns about slowing the tempo of Russian offensive operations in these higher priority directions,
The replenishment received is mostly untrained and does not help; instead, it complicates the combat operations of the units,