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I was very scared, very scared. Shells were flying from all sides, helicopters, planes, fighter jets were flying over the house,
Nina Golinyaeva, an evacuee from Sudzha, told AFP In the evening I saw soldiers in the streets,
Most Russian attacks are taking place ... We are paying maximum defensive attention."
in the Donbas, ... Zelensky said, adding The ‘exchange fund’ for our state has also been significantly replenished.”
In his nightly address on Wednesday, Zelenskyy said ... and added 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,
It is hard to say goodbye to them, because we want them to live forever, to live among us as honoured sons of their homeland,
We have taken control of 1,150 square kilometres of territory and 82 settlements,
said top military commander Oleksandr Syrsky We hid in the bushes,
said Sudzha resident Tatyana Anikeyeva, speaking to Russian television from a facility helping evacuees General Syrskyi reported on the completion of the liberation of the town of Sudzha from the Russian military. A Ukrainian military commandant’s office is being established there now,
said Zelenskiy, after receiving a briefing from the commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, on Thursday Smart people in Kyiv have calculated that they should take over this hub, in order that the Russian army will have to destroy it [to take it back],
Andrei Fedorov, a former Russian deputy foreign minister, said on a state television talk show We have a new replenishment of our ‘exchange fund’,
said Zelenskiy, commenting on the new prisoners of war This means deliveries of gas to Europe will be stopped, because of Russia’s actions, not Ukraine’s. By the way, this will hit Hungary and Slovakia very hard,
The Ukrainian officials say one thing and the Russian Defence Ministry [puts] out statements to the contrary,
There are units from the Russian Defense Ministry, too, in Sudzha now, as the enemy is in and around certain parts of the town. Active fighting has been taking place daily there. The enemy cannot claim full control of Sudzha because they [Ukrainian troops] do not actually control it,
Major-General Apty Alaudinov was quoted as saying by TASS news agency We were rushing from Sudzha … We hid in the bushes. Volunteers were handing out water, food, bread to people on the go. The sound of the cannonade continued without any break. The house was shaking,
she told Russian state television We have seen some Russian units being redirected from operations in and around Ukraine to the Kursk area,
What's happening in Kursk is the incursion of terrorist sabotage groups, so there is no front line as such,
Russia's deputy UN ambassador, Dmitry Polyansky, told reporters Wednesday The more Russian military presence is destroyed in the border regions, the closer peace and real security will be for our state. The Russian state must be responsible for what it has done,
The fact is that Russia has used the Kursk and Belgorod regions, as well as Belarus, to launch lethal air and ground attacks on Ukraine, and 'active defense' across the border is a legitimate strategy,