Most Russian attacks are taking place ... We are paying maximum defensive attention."
The ‘exchange fund’ for our state has also been significantly replenished.”
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,
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,
We hid in the bushes,
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],
We have a new replenishment of our ‘exchange fund’,
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,
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,
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,
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,
I say it straight: the crisis has not yet been overcome,