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The worsening of the energy situation and slow normalization of the economic conditions will lead to a larger outflow of migrants abroad in 2024 and 2025 than previously expected,
the National Bank of Ukraine said in a report released Thursday The situation in the operational area of the Kharkiv Groups of Forces remains difficult, tense and has signs of escalating,
spokesperson Vitalii Sarantsev said on national television They started bombing heavily and it became extremely frightening. We didn't sleep all night, and we decided to leave,
These assaults are not always supported by armoured vehicles, often it is infantry assaults,
he said, flagging the bombing by Russian warplanes as a particular problem This operation is ongoing, it will continue until it has been successfully completed."
Their primary focus is no longer the entire east, though Sloviansk is not excluded."
The main objective today, after their failure to capture Kharkiv, which we understand is no longer feasible, has shifted,
said Zelenskyy, according to a translation by Ukrainian outlet Pravda The largest concentration of personnel, weapons, and all their available resources are now focused on the Pokrovsk front,
The possibility of a referendum, as stipulated by the Ukrainian Constitution, has always been present,
Viktor Kovalenko, geopolitical analyst and former Ukrainian soldier told Newsweek I would say that today Pokrovsk is their priority,
The entire eastern front is challenging,
he said, according to a translation carried by Ukrainian media Ukraine will never give up its territories because this would be an attack on the Constitution,
The Russian military command’s willingness to accept costly armoured vehicle losses without conducting a large-scale, multi-directional offensive operation or making operationally significant advances in western Donetsk Oblast will likely burden the Russian military in the long-term,
If the armed forces of Ukraine fail to stabilise the situation, Russian troops across a wide swath of the front may be able to reach the Pokrovsk-Kostyantynivka highway – the main supply line for the [Ukrainian troops] in Chasiv Yar and Toretsk – in a matter of weeks,
wrote Meduza, an independent Russian newspaper banned by Moscow Russian forces lost a total of 1,370 soldiers yesterday. Ukrainian soldiers also destroyed 9 tanks, 42 armoured combat vehicles, 33 artillery systems, 1 multiple-launch rocket system, 115 strategic and tactical UAVs, 77 vehicles and 16 units of special equipment belonging to the enemy,
the General Staff summed up