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They were helping move civilians to temporary shelters,
the group said, without specifying whether the shelling attack was carried out by Russian or Ukrainian forces Today we are seeing the enemy very close to our locality, the city of Pokrovsk. [Russian forces] are just over 10 kilometres away from the outskirts of the city of Pokrovsk. We are seeing that during the attacks on our locality and our city, the enemy ruthlessly hits critical infrastructure and private residential neighbourhoods. People are being killed."
Ukrainians have been quite clear in identifying and highlighting that this is not an incursion aiming to occupy Russian territories but rather self-defensive measures,
No significant changes in the size of the group were detected, and the number of the personnel is not changing enough to indicate any differences or weakening in … hostilities,
Lykhoviy said on national television Our advance in the Kursk region is going well today – we are reaching our strategic goal,
Zelenskyy said in his nightly address Wednesday The more the Russian military presence in the border area is destroyed, the closer peace and real security will be for our country,
It is important that Ukraine fights by the rules, and the humanitarian needs that exist in this area must be met,
The creation of a buffer zone in the Kursk region is a step to protect our border communities from daily hostile shelling,
The ‘exchange fund’ for our state has also been significantly replenished,
Of course they are involved,
Russian lawmaker Maria Butina told Reuters There are less cheerful posts about the war and more negative content targeted at Russian authorities, including the defence ministry and local officials,
said OpenMinds chief executive Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi The regional operational headquarters has decided to mandate the evacuation of the entire Glushkovsky district,
The only ones who didn’t know were the defence ministry,
Some are pleased that Putin reprimanded Smirnov, while others are happy that the president was finally made aware of the full scale of the problem,
said Ivan Philippov, a Russian researcher who monitors the activity of pro-war bloggers Putin has always been known for his tendency to disappear from the public eye in critical situations. He opts for a wait-and-see approach,
said Ekaterina Schulmann, a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin], tell your officials responsible for truthful information to show the real situation. These lies are causing civilians to die,
a grey-haired man in a black T-shirt appealed in the video We should call it a war, a full military operation. Not some counterterrorism or a special military operation. That’s all wrong,
Just before the start of the Ukrainian offensive, 80 per cent of Belgorod residents were involved in volunteer activities, 10 per cent were in territorial defence, and 17 per cent helped in hospitals,