‘The occupiers are not just storming our positions, they are deliberately and methodically destroying the towns and villages around them, with artillery, air strikes, missiles’...
So the NATO assessment that a Russian resort to nuclear weapons in Ukraine is most unlikely, which underpins the NATO decision on the tanks, is almost certainly correct...
‘During offensive operations in the direction of Zaporizhzhia, units of the Eastern Military District took up more advantageous ground and positions’...