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“The Russians felt they would lose, and they are just trying to delay that moment”
"The constant attempts of the Russian offensive in the Donetsk region will surely go down in the history of wars as one of the most cynical murders of its own soldiers," Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily video address.
When you see that, when you see these offensives, you are once again convinced that the Russian mobilization is a frank attempt to give commanders in the field a steady stream of cannon fodder.
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“There is simply no other point in the Russian mobilization.
They felt they would lose, and they are just trying to delay that moment, to ensure at least some activity at the front, to replace the dead with at least someone with arms in their hands.
Unfortunately, Russian society is not yet aware of all the brutality of the Russian government towards its own people.
But we must do everything so that every Russian citizen recognizes that his own state deprives him of the most important thing - the right to life.
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06:43
Last day of voting
Russia completes this Tuesday the organization of the annexation referendums which have been held since Friday in four territories totally or partly under its control in Ukraine: the separatist regions of Donetsk and Lugansk (east) and those under Russian occupation of Kherson and Zaporizhia (south).
The authorities assured that "provisional results" should be announced no earlier than Tuesday evening or in the days that follow.
The Russian Parliament will then have to vote on a text formalizing the integration of the four regions into Russia.
06:35
Hello and welcome to this live
This live is devoted to the events of the day related to the Russian offensive in Ukraine and its consequences.