Ukraine As many casualties as in Afghanistan: NATO estimates that Russia may have lost up to 15,000 soldiers in a single month
Ana Palacio "The war has acted as a catalyst for the tensions that have been brewing"
The US
does not believe
Russia
or the withdrawal of its troops from
Kiev
, announced on Monday in the first advance in the negotiations to end the
war in Ukraine
.
"We believe this is a relocation, not a real withdrawal, and we should all be prepared to see a major offensive against other parts of
Ukraine
," Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said.
The US noted that "no one should be fooled by Russia
's recent claim
that it will suddenly reduce military strikes against Kiev in the war in
Ukraine
or any other information that it will withdraw all its forces."
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Russia withdraws part of its troops from kyiv to focus on the conquest of Donbas
The Russian Army has begun withdrawing some of its troops from the outskirts of
Kiev
and the besieged northern city of Chernigov to focus on the conquest of
Donbas
, the primary objective of the current Russian military campaign in Ukraine.
"The Russian enemy is carrying out the withdrawal of individual units from the territories of the
Kiev
and
Chernigov
regions, " the General Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
Russia
had announced this morning the intention to reduce military activity around Kiev and Chernigov after the negotiations held in Istanbul with the Ukrainian delegation.
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05.58.
The US warns that the Russian withdrawal from the vicinity of kyiv "is not real"
The Pentagon said on Tuesday that
Russia
has moved "a small number" of units in the last day in the vicinity of Kiev and ruled out that it is "a real withdrawal."
"We believe this is a relocation, not a real withdrawal, and we should all be prepared to see a major offensive against other parts of
Ukraine
," Defense Department spokesman John Kirby told a news conference.
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05.57.
Zelensky says that Ukraine will not reduce its defense and that the invasion is coming to an end
The President of
Ukraine
,
Volodimir Zelensky
, has stated that on the 34th day the
Russian invasion
"is coming to an end", but that his country will not reduce "defense efforts", after
Russia
announced that it will "reduce hostilities in
Kiev
and
Chenikov
".
"Yes, we can qualify the signals we hear from the trading platform as positive. But these signals do not drown out the breakouts of the Russian projectiles,"
Zelensky
said in his usual late-day message posted on the Ukrainian presidency website.
"The 34th day of the full-scale invasion of
Russia
and our full-scale defense is coming to an end,"
Zelensky
said .
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