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Now all of us in Ukraine should act as unitedly and efficiently as we did in the first weeks and months of this war, when Ukraine took the initiative and began to turn the situation to the benefit of our state,
Zelensky said in his nightly address Tuesday Russian authorities will likely remain extremely averse to pulling Russian military units engaged in combat from (Donetsk) and will likely continue deploying limited numbers of irregular forces to Kursk … due to concerns about further slowing the tempo of Russian operations in these higher priority directions,
When explosions started near the city, when people were dying and when all this started happening before our eyes … and when it affected people personally, they stopped at least openly supporting
the war ... the woman said The situation in the Belgorod region continues to be extremely difficult and tense,
Gladkov said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app We continue to advance further in Kursk region. From one to two kilometres in various areas since the start of the day. And more than 100 Russian prisoners of war in the same period,
Zelenskiy wrote in a statement published alongside the video Most of the residents have already left, but we continue to take them out—we have empty buses, we take people with limited mobility out in cars,
We are making a decision to declare a regional emergency situation throughout the Belgorod region with a subsequent appeal to the government to declare a federal emergency."
Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said Russia is trying very hard to downplay the Ukrainians' successes,
If Ukraine could strike the enemy troops on their territory, from where they threaten Ukraine, then Ukraine would be in a much better position to protect itself."
We are expanding the area of active operations. The Commander-in-Chief reported that our forces control 74 settlements in the Kursk region,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address on Tuesday, citing Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi We have proven once again that we, Ukrainians, are capable of achieving our goals in any situation—capable of defending our interests and our independence,
The Russians understand the motivations of Ukraine as trying to strengthen its negotiating position, so that rather than Ukraine always being pressured to give up territory, now it holds some Russian territory it has more agency and can propose land swaps,
We have no involvement. We'll continue to have conversations with the Ukrainians about their approach, but it is really for them to speak to,
The Russian strategy is to avoid drawing from units in the Donetsk direction as much as possible,
said Serhii Kuzan, the chairman of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center, an independent research group, referring to the region in eastern Ukraine that is on the front line The situation still remains difficult,
said Yuri Podolyaka, an influential Ukrainian-born, pro-Russian military blogger 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."
I'll say it straight: the crisis has not yet been overcome,
It's creating a real dilemma for Putin,