Ukraine "Silent terror" grips Kherson
Invasion Between Collapse and Exhaustion: Four Scenarios for the Ukraine War
Russia has completed
three months of war in Ukraine
without being able to claim the desired victory on the battlefield and not
without a clear withdrawal plan,
since
negotiations with Kiev
are frozen.
"We are not pursuing any deadline. All the objectives set by the president, Vladimir Putin, will be met. It cannot be otherwise because the truth, including the historical truth, is on our side," said Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council. Russian.
For his part, Russian Defense
Minister Sergey Shoigu
said Tuesday that
Russia will continue the "special military operation" in Ukraine
despite the "massive aid from the West" to Kiev and the sanctions against Moscow.
"Despite the large-scale Western aid to the kyiv regime and the pressure of sanctions on Russia, we will continue the special military operation until all objectives are completed," Shoigu told a meeting of defense officials of the Treaty Organization. of Collective Security (OTSC).
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Russia intensifies its attacks and relentlessly advances on the Lugansk region of Donbas
Russia has intensified its offensive on Tuesday against the last pockets of resistance in the Ukrainian region of Lugansk, in the Donbas basin (east).
Russian troops try to surround the neighboring cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has reported fierce fighting very close to these two cities (about 100 km northwest of Lugansk), in the towns of Popasna and Bakhmut.
Although the bombardments are constant, many inhabitants refuse to leave.
"People don't want to leave," laments the deputy mayor of Bajmut, Maxim Sutkoviy, before a half-empty bus planned to keep civilians away from the fighting.
Those who remain suffer a daily routine of missile fire and shelling from dawn to noon.
Severodonetsk, on the other hand, is bombed "24 hours a day" by the Russians, who "use the scorched earth tactic," Lugansk governor Sergei Gaidai said, reporting four deaths in a bombardment.
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