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Currently, the situation in Kurakhove is indeed quite difficult, because a significant part of the city has been destroyed,
spokesperson Viktor Tregubov said
The town of Kurakhove is effectively lost,
wrote Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov, before acknowledging thatThey are trying to destroy all houses, even low-rise buildings,
he saidIn the Kurakhove sector, the defense forces are countering the enemy's attempts to use their superiority in manpower and develop an offensive,
Ukraine's Khortytsia army unit said on social media
The enemy actively conducted assault operations in the urban area of Kurakhove,
it said
We believe it has the intent to share space and satellite technology with the DPRK,
Blinken said
The Russians have deployed their strongest units to Kursk, including soldiers from North Korea. Importantly, all this manpower cannot now be redirected to other fronts – neither to the Donetsk region, nor against Sumy, the Kharkiv region or Zaporizhzhia,
Zelenskyy saidIf there is going to be, at some point, a ceasefire, it's not going to be, in Putin's mind, 'game over',
Blinken saidWe are registering a concentration of enemy equipment in another direction and naturally we understand that (Ukraine) will try to strike in this direction. Right now I won't say where,
said Major General Apti Alaudinov, commander of a Chechen unit fighting for Russia in Kursk
During the Kursk operation, the enemy has already lost 38,000 of their soldiers in this direction alone, with nearly 15,000 of these losses being irreversible,
he saidTrump and I will come to an agreement and... offer strong security guarantees, together with Europe, and then we can talk to the Russians,
Zelensky said, according to the published translation of the interview held in Kyiv over the New Year
Russia is getting what it deserves,
Ukrainian presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak said, without elaborating
Ukraine has the right to defend itself, and under international law, this right extends beyond its borders,
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in a statement to Reuters
We are committed to putting Ukraine in the strongest possible position on the battlefield, including by surging security assistance and utilizing all available resources authorized by the Congress.”
A U.S. State Department spokesperson said on SundayThere’s a likelihood that we haven’t seen the main thrust of this Ukrainian offensive operation just yet,
he told ReutersFor two months of hostilities near Kurakhovo, the daily losses of the AFU averaged from 150 to 180 servicemen killed and wounded,
the ministry wrote, though it didn’t specify how many Russian troops had died fighting to capture the town
Measures are underway to identify and destroy enemy assault groups trying to infiltrate our combat formations,
the army said
The morning in the Kursk region is starting off worryingly again. It is obvious that yesterday's failure will not stop the enemy and he will try to impose his will on us again today,
one blogger, Yuri Podolyaka, posted on Telegram