The enemy is spreading across the region. The rate of advancement is very high. And, unfortunately, now his offensive potential here is limited not by the strength of our resistance, but rather by his reserves,
More than 53,000 people, including almost 4,000 children, still live here, but lately, the front has come too close to Pokrovsk so we have to react accordingly,
Our guys are doing great on all fronts. However, there is a need for faster delivery of supplies from our partners,
Oil and oil products were stored there
Decisions are needed, as are timely logistics for the announced aid packages. I especially address this to the United States, the United Kingdom and France,
I am grateful for every achievement in crushing the invaders. We are working to ensure the supply of weapons and secure the necessary decisive actions from our partners for our [operations] on the front,
The commander-in-chief also reported new details of the operation in Kursk Oblast. We are achieving our goals. This morning, the prisoner-of-war exchange pool has been replenished for our nation."
We've already expanded and will continue to expand the circle of those who support a just end to this war,
In particular, this is the creation of a buffer zone on the territory of the aggressor—our operation in Kursk Oblast."
It’s an active dynamic situation, and we’re still watching it,
Now we are reinforcing our positions,
There are no vacations in war,
It can’t be right to let Putin hit a children’s hospital with glide bombs from miles over the border, yet bar Ukraine from defending itself with long-range missiles like Storm Shadow.”
Russia assumed that the US or other Western countries may eventually grant them permission to use long-range missiles in Russia, and they just made the adjustments at that point,
Unfortunately, the situation has slowed down recently.”
We will discuss how to fix this because long-range capabilities are vital for us. The whole world sees how effective Ukrainians are – how our entire nation defends its independence.”
Russia has spent considerable resources to build fortifications along the international border area, ... but has not allocated the manpower and [matériel] to significantly man and defend those fortifications."
The Ukrainian operation in Kursk Oblast [has forced] a decision-point on the Kremlin and the Russian military command about whether to view the 1,000 kilometer-long international border with northeastern Ukraine as a legitimate front line that Russia must defend,
It is now our primary task in defensive operations overall to destroy as much Russian war potential as possible and conduct maximum counteroffensive actions. This includes creating a buffer zone on the aggressor’s territory – our operation in the Kursk region.”
I have said publicly that if it continues, we will be forced to create a security zone, a sanitary zone,