Thread by @UKikaski

Good news about AFU combat operations from Pres. Zelensky:

"We are currently conducting one of our counteroffensive operations – the guys are doing great – in the Donetsk direction, in the area of Pokrovsk, in the area of Dobropillia. Fierce battles, but we managed ...

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... to inflict significant losses on the Russians. Today was the first report from Commander Syrskyi on the results. Since the beginning of the operation, our warriors have already liberated 160 square kilometers, and more than 170 square kilometers have been cleared of the occupiers.
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We have significantly replenished our exchange fund – there are already almost a hundred Russian prisoners of war, and there will be more. Seven settlements in the direction have already been liberated, and nine more have been cleared of Russian presence.
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Any group of occupiers trying to enter here is destroyed by our guys. Russian losses just since the beginning of this counteroffensive operation, only in the Pokrovsk area, only in these weeks – already more than two and a half thousand, of which more than 1,300 Russians have been killed.
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Ukraine is completely justified in defending its positions, its land. This is a heroic defense. I am proud of our warriors, proud of our people."
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