The soldier also points to the "huge" advantage of the Russians in personnel, artillery and equipment. He attributed the retreat to the fact that in late September, elite Ukrainian units in the Kursk region were replaced by "less hardened" ones. 2/2

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Ukraine has lost about half of the territory seized in the Kursk region, the Economist reports. The journalists spoke to a Ukrainian military officer who told them that the Russians have intensified their offensive in this area. 1/2

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2/2: Окупанти понесли важкі втрати. Залишки ворожої піхоти розосередились в руїнах будівель, а там на них почали полювання ударні БПЛА.

📺: 12 бригада Нацгвардії "Азов" @azov_media pic.twitter.com/xZyrSJi7Yz

— НГУ (@ng_ukraine) 17 décembre 2024

2/2: The occupants suffered heavy losses. The remnants of the enemy infantry dispersed among the ruins of buildings, where attack UAVs began hunting them. : 12th Brigade of the National Guard "Azov"
@azov_media

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1/2: Торецький напрямок…
Кілька багі і броньовик, набиті російською піхотою, їхали на штурм позицій Сил оборони на Торецькому напрямку. Машини підривалися на мінах, отримували FPV-дрони в лоб і дорогою губили десант, який у відчаї намагався наздогнати транспорт.
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— НГУ (@ng_ukraine) 17 décembre 2024

1/2: Toretsk direction…
Several buggies and an armored vehicle, packed with Russian infantry, were heading to storm the Defense Forces' positions on the Toretsk direction. The vehicles hit mines, took FPV drones head-on, and along the way lost their dismounts, who desperately tried to catch up with the transport.

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In the shadow of a building heavily damaged by a Russian missile, childhood continues in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/9ouDFftyUY

— KyivPost (@KyivPost) 17 décembre 2024

In the shadow of a building heavily damaged by a Russian missile, childhood continues in Ukraine.

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The Special Operation Forces published footage of first-person-view (FPV) drones successfully targeting soldiers and equipment on the battlefield.

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Ukraine's Special Operations Forces killed 50 North Korean soldiers and injured 47 others in three days of fighting in Russia's Kursk Oblast, the unit said on Dec. 17.

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SSO forces destroyed 50 soldiers from North Korea near Kursk – video https://ift.tt/UK63gdN #liga #news

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There's also no doubt that Kirillov was responsible for widespread breaches of the Chemical Weapons Convention; Russian forces have been systematically using chemical weapons against Ukrainians for years. I wrote about this for The Telegraph in April. https://
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202
4/04/06/russia-using-illegal-chemical-attacks-against-ukraine/
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