The Russian war machine will crawl forward, striving for the occupation of the areas in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Experts believe that this region can be added to the list of territories that the Kremlin claims that he “annexed”.
“Putin, this idiot, wants to take everything. Our most famous lands. That's what it is about,” says in an interview with the British daily “The Guardian” Walentin from the village of Malijiwka in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
“The Guardian” in a report from Ukraine describes the situation in Malijiwka, a small agricultural village on the administrative border between Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk circuits.
Walentin, a 72-year-old pensioner, watched the war approaching his home more and more. “Recently, rockets began to fly over my house. A deaf bang was heard, and I saw a streak in the sky,” said Walentin in the reportage “The Guardian”.
Ukrainian soldiers defending the Dnipropietrowska region describe the front line as “stable”, but admit that the situation is “dynamic”.
“Our task is to stop them,” said Captain Wiktor Daniściuk in an interview with the British newspaper, admitting that his mechanized brigade lacks drones, ammunition and infantry.
Ukraine claims that it is able to repel Russia's summer offensive, although it is very difficult. The pace at which Moscow takes control of the areas is free and the human costs on the Russian side are very high. After 448 days of fighting for time Jar located in the Donetsk region, the Russians managed to take control of only 50 percent. Cities, winning an average of only 0.0163 sq km per day.
“They don't move forward. It is very difficult [trwające walki] For our boys. It is difficult everywhere. It is also very difficult for the Russians, “said Zelanski, quoted by the website” Euronews “. Meanwhile, Ukraine is trying to get more Patriot rocket systems to strengthen his air defense.
Putin does not change the demands
Moscow warns that the war will last if Ukraine does not meet its maximalistic demands. According to “Kyiv Independent” on Sunday, July 27, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Pieskov said that Russia would continue military operations until it achieved its “goals”.
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Dmitry Pieskow
Russia still insists on the same demands, which it set at the beginning of the full -glass invasion of in 2022. These include:
No Ukrainian accession to NATO,
demilitarization and “denazification” (change of authorities) of the country,
“Legal guarantees” for the Russian language, culture and religious groups related to Moscow in Ukraine.
The Kremlin also demanded constitutional changes in Ukraine, including the recognition of four Ukrainian regions under Russian territory, along with the Crimean Peninsula, which Putin illegally annexed in 2014.
Russian forces currently control over 20 percent. Ukraine's territory. Russia controls Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014, about 80 percent Donbass – a region covering the Donetsk and Lugansk circuits, extremely important for Ukraine due to the importance of its coal and steel industries – and over 70 percent. Zaporoskie and Chersonian circuits.
According to the information, which was reached by journalists “The Times” and Reuters, the plan of US President Donald Trump regarding the end of the war in Ukraine assumes the acceptance of the fact that Russia will keep occupied territories, including Crimea.
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