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Ukraine’s counter-offensive on the Lyman axis collapsed the northern arm of a Russian pincer movement aimed at surrounding Ukrainian-held Donetsk, liberating up to 176 square kilometres and forcing Russian units onto the defensive, the Washington-based think tank said. #Ukraine #Donbas #OperationVivaldi

Amalia accused Russia of deliberately launching attacks against civilians in Ukraine, citing strikes on apartment buildings, schools, shopping centers, public transport, playgrounds, and bridges. She argued that most of the victims were Russian-speaking individuals in Eastern Ukraine and criticized those who, as she wrote, showed sensitivity towards Palestine and Iran in Greece, but not towards Ukrainians. Regarding the recent strikes, she mentioned that in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, 22 civilians were killed, including 5 children—three of them one year old—and 54 were injured. For Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast, she wrote that two city buses were attacked and 33 people were killed, while the number of injured remained unknown. She added that 9 people were also killed in Kyiv, 2 in Kremenchuk, 2 in Konotop, 2 in Oleksandriia, and 1 in Zaporizhzhia, raising the death toll of civilian casualties over the two days to 71, according to her. Regarding the negotiations with U.S. intervention, Amalia claimed that Zelensky was accepting a ceasefire with the troops in their current positions and was asking for guarantees from the West. She stated that pro-Russian separatist forces controlled 60% of Donetsk Oblast before the Russian invasion of 2022, that since then the Russian army had captured an additional 20%, and that it had not managed to capture the remaining 20%. She asserted that Putin did not want a ceasefire, but a peace agreement that would require Zelensky to go to Moscow, the demilitarization of Ukraine, a constitutional commitment not to seek EU or NATO membership, and the recognition of the territories occupied by Russia since 2014, including Crimea. She added that Russia was also demanding the surrender of the remaining 20% of Donetsk Oblast that it had not captured. Amalia compared the situation to Cyprus, where, as she wrote, since August 1974 a ceasefire had been in effect under UN supervision, without a permanent peace agreement, because Turkey demanded recognition of the loss of territories and the pseudostate. She concluded that Russia sought, in her view, the humiliation of Ukraine and not peace. #Ουκρανία #Ειρήνη #Πόλεμος (translated)

The most intense combat operations have taken place in the same areas as in recent weeks: the direction of Pokrovsk and Konstantynivka in Donetsk, the southern Slobozhansky direction in Kharkiv region, the direction of Huliaipole in Zaporizhzhia, and the direction of Lyman in Donetsk continues. Ukrainian counterattacks have still occurred in the Kupiansk direction in Kharkiv region and in Donetsk in the directions of Sloviansk, Lyman, and Kramatorsk," said Kiviselg. #Ukraina #Venemaa #sõda (translated)

– The Russians are intentionally targeting civilian sites. For them, a bus full of passengers is an attractive target precisely because a single strike can kill as many people as possible, said Vadym Filashkin, the head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, according to CNN. #UkrainanSota #Venäjä #Kuolemantapaukset (translated)

A Russian bombing against a bus in Kramatorsk has left at least 30 dead and 18 injured, according to reports from the prosecutor's office of the Donetsk region, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounces the attack as a war crime. #Ucrania #Kramatorsk #Guerra (translated)

"I am not at all sure that the person who has stayed there will leave in the near future. They are all so attached to their home, and it's possible that they don't plan to leave at all. If all the neighboring houses get hit and they no longer have any windows, then they will decide to leave because there’s nothing left to hold on to," Vlad said. #Ukraina #DonetskiOblast #Evakuatsioon (translated)