“Our independence is in our blood,” he said on Telegram on Saturday.
Ukraine somberly marks 33 years of independence as war with Russia rages on
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His chief military officer, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, said Kyiv's forces control nearly 1,300 square kilometers (about 500 square miles) and about 100 settlements in the region, a claim that couldn’t be independently verified.
Here's why Russia has struggled to halt Ukraine's incursion in the Kursk region
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