About the takeover of the settlement of Novodmytivka – citing the war report Moscow – Reuters reports, while emphasizing that it is unable to confirm these findings. Minister of Defense Russia In a video shared online, Andrei Belousov visits the command post in… Ukraine staffed by the Russian army group “North”, where he presented medals for bravery.
– The work we did here crushed the best Ukrainian units. Now progress has accelerated. We thwarted their entire 2025 campaign, said the adjutant Vladimir Putin.
War in Ukraine. Russia wants to take over a key logistics node
As analyzed by the DeepState project, during the night enemy forces simultaneously attacked five settlements near Veliky Novosilka, Rozdolny, Maksymivka, Pustinka and Toretsk, located in the Kurakhov district of the Donetsk region. General Staff of the Armed Forces Ukrainy reported that there was a front of a thousand kilometers in the Kurakhov sector heavy fighting is taking place. Last day 35 skirmishes took place there.
However, this is not the end of bad news for defending Ukraine – Russian forces control less than 20 percent. territory of this country and over the last two months have been moving through the Donetsk Oblast at the fastest pace since March 2022. Reuters – analyzing the movements of Kremlin troops – points to the “key” nature of the stormed areas.
Putin's army is approaching Kurakhov and the northern city of Pokrovsk, home to the only coal mine supplying the Ukrainian steel industry with coking coal. Russian forces are also making progress even further north near Kupyansk (Kharkov Oblast), a railway junction and logistics center.
Ukrainians have had enough. Society's morale is falling
In parallel to the offensive, the morale of Ukrainian society is falling – a new survey by the renowned Gallup Institute shows that Already over half of the surveyed Ukrainians (52%) want to start peace negotiations and end the war as soon as possible. The rate of such responses has doubled in twelve months, with “only” slightly more than one in three (38%) ready to fight “until victory.”
The study was carried out in August and October – before the president's decision was announced United States Joe Biden. This gave Ukraine the green light to use against Russia long-range ATACMS missiles.
“The Economist” notes that support for continued resistance against Russia has declined in all parts of Ukraine. A Gallup survey showed that support in Kiev dropped by 39 percentage points. from 2022. On the other hand in the eastern regions (near the front line) only every fourth respondent (27 proc.) wants to continue hostilities. The rest, 63 percent, want the war to end.
Sources: Reuters, “The Economist”