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-snip- “In all wars that Russia [and the Soviet Union] has ever fought, it relies entirely on the number of people,” Nazar says. “[Soviet Field Marshal Georgy] Zhukov said in World War II: ‘men’s deaths are not a problem, women will give birth to more of them’. That’s their viewpoint. A human for them is just a unit, a resource,” he says. He attempts to have the opposite relationship with his soldiers. “I’ve worked with American commanders and advisors,” Nazar says. “They have a great phrase: ‘do as I do’. It’s their motto, and I try to follow it as...

SVIATOHIRSK/KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces have broken through Russia’s defences in the south of the country while expanding their rapid offensive in the east, seizing back more territory in areas annexed by Moscow and threatening supply lines for Russian troops. Making their biggest breakthrough in the south since the war began, Ukrainian forces recaptured several villages in an advance along the strategic Dnipro River on Monday, Ukrainian officials and a Russian-installed leader in the area said. The southern breakthrough mirrors recent Ukrainian advances in the east, even as Moscow has tried to raise the stakes by annexing land, ordering mobilisation,...

The Russians bring the newly mobilized to the front. The Ukrainian forces are attacking the Kryvyi Rih axis. The occupiers claim that the Ukrainian Defense Forces are doing well in yet another axis of the front line - they are rapidly pushing the enemy towards Beryslav. Information is published in the Telegram channel of the South Operational Command. The report says that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have a significant amount of military equipment and manpower. This made it possible for the Ukrainian defenders to push the occupiers beyond the watermelon monument, which is located near the village of Osokorivka,...