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Ukraine’s commander-in-chief said the war with Russia was moving to a new stage of positional warfare involving static and attritional fighting, a phase he warned could benefit Moscow.
The Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, told a prank caller posing as an African leader that there was “a lot of tiredness” over the war in Ukraine and that she had some ideas up her sleeve on how to “find a way out”.
More than 260 civilians have been killed in Ukraine after stepping on mines or other explosives during the 20-month-old war with Russia, Ukraine’s military said.
Russia has shelled more than 100 settlements within the last 24 hours, more than in any single day so far this year, Ukraine said on Wednesday.
A Russian attack on Kherson in eastern Ukraine killed one person and injured two others, the region’s governor said earlier, with a Russian drone strike reportedly killing another civilian in Nikopol. These claims have not been independently verified.
South Korea’s top spy agency believes North Korea sent more than a million artillery shells to Russia since August to help fuel Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, according to a lawmaker.
Russia launched a score of drones and a missile in an overnight attack that targeted military and critical infrastructure, Ukraine’s air force said, while regional officials said the Kremenchuk oil refinery was hit.
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Ukraine needs new military capabilities as war moves to attritional fighting, says army chief
Ukraine’s commander-in-chief has said the war with Russia was moving to a new stage of positional warfare involving static and attritional fighting, a phase he warned could benefit Moscow and allow it to rebuild its military power.
In an article for the Economist, top general Valerii Zaluzhnyi said the Ukrainian army needed key new military capabilities and technology, including air power, to break out of that kind of war.
He also called for Ukraine to build up its army reserves and expand the categories of Ukrainian citizens who can be called up for training or to be mobilised.
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