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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,
Zelenskyy 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 Now we have done the exact same thing -- 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,
Russia brought war to others, and now it’s coming home.”
But he also hinted at another rationale, adding The West is fighting us with the hands of the Ukrainians,
he said, repeating his frequent depiction of the war, which he started, as a proxy campaign against Russia by the West Therefore, our operations are purely a security matter for Ukraine,
he said in his nightly address The operation to neutralize ... is in progress.”
Ukrainian units ... Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Tuesday