The situation on the front line is “very, very difficult”, we must do what we can in the autumn. This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The information is from Reuters. The President said this in his daily evening address to his countrymen.
He made the statement after a meeting with Ukrainian senior commanders that lasted more than two and a half hours. “Anything that can be done this fall, anything that we can accomplish should be accomplished,” he said.
Ukrainian military bloggers have reported in recent days that Russian forces are advancing towards the town of Ugledar – the southern part of Donetsk region.
Russian forces have also been slowly advancing for months in the north, aiming to capture all of Donbas. It consists of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said today that Russian forces captured the village of Nelipivka, south of the city of Toretsk.
“Ukraine, as a sovereign state, can make its own decisions to strike targets in Russia with its own weapons, and the United States does not prohibit the use of American weapons in the border regions of the Russian Federation.” According to Ukrinform’s correspondent, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said this in response to a question about the possibility of Ukraine receiving US permission to deep strike Russia with American weapons.
The US State Department spokesman said that Ukraine does not need US permission to retaliate against Russian targets because it is a sovereign state and can use the weapons it has developed on its own, of which it has a large stock.
In addition, Miller emphasized, the United States does not prohibit Ukrainian armed forces from striking Russian targets near the border, from where Russian troops are launching an offensive.
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