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""Kirill Stremousov, said Mr. Shoigu should consider killing himself because of the Russian army’s failures in Ukraine.""
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crash davis
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Ukraine says it has retaken more villages in the east and south of the country.
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Ukraine’s forces have edged deeper into territory in the south and east of the country, officials say, highlighting the difficulty Moscow faces in reinforcing its defensive positions even as it has attempted to mobilize tens of thousands of new troops to bolster its war effort.
The victories, which came as President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia illegally annexed four regions where fighting is raging, appeared to defy — at least for now — warnings from some military analysts that Kyiv’s advance in the east would likely stall because of a need to resupply and rotate troops.
Since early September, Ukraine has recaptured several railway hubs in its counteroffensive, hindering Moscow’s ability to funnel troops and equipment to the eastern front lines and damping its ability to bludgeon its way to gains.
Kyiv’s forces retook two villages in Donetsk Province —- Sviatohirsk and Yarova — in Ukraine’s east, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, and small settlements in the neighboring province of Luhansk, regional officials said.
“The return of the Ukrainian flag means that a peaceful and socially secure life is once again possible for Donbas,” Mr. Zelensky said in a late night speech on Wednesday, referring to the industrial region made up of Donetsk and Luhansk.
In the south, where Ukraine announced a counteroffensive in late August, Kyiv’s forces took back another smattering of small villages near the Dnipro River on Wednesday, carving away more of the swath of territory Mr. Putin illegally annexed.
Mr. Zelensky said that the settlements of Novovoskresenske, Novohryhorivka and Petropavlivka, to the northeast of the city of Kherson, had been liberated.
A day earlier, he had said that eight settlements in the agricultural area were recaptured, some of which were confirmed by a Russian-appointed official in the Kherson.
It was not possible to confirm the latest battlefield developments independently, but pro-Russian military bloggers, some of whom have access to Russian troops, have spoken in pessimistic terms in recent days about the fighting.
Ukrainian forces captured a large slice of territory in northeastern Kharkiv Province in early September and, on Saturday, the city of Lyman in Donetsk Province, a rail hub used by Russian forces, was retaken after days of fighting. Since then, Ukraine has said it has taken villages both northwest of Lyman, in Donetsk Province, and to the northeast in Luhansk Province.
Other settlements in the area had also been recaptured, but would not be named, according to the Luhansk governor, Serhiy Haidai, who said on the Telegram social messaging app that to do so could invite Russian shelling.
Military experts say that Ukrainian forces have almost certainly set their sights on three cities in the northern part of Luhansk Province — Svatove, Kremmina and, further east, the city of Starobilsk — which is another rail hub valuable to Moscow because of its proximity to the Russian border. An official of a pro-Russian breakaway republic in Luhansk, Rodion Miroshnik, said on Thursday that Kremmina, a city seized near the start of the war, was under its control, Russia’s state news agency, Tass, reported.
The largest cities in the province in Russian hands — and the most significant target for Ukraine — are the sister cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, which fell in June and July after weeks of artillery fire that reduced many buildings to rubble and forced much of the population to flee.
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