00:005 people were killed and up to 50 people were injured.
00:10The enemy hit the center of the city, the administrative building, in the middle of the day.
00:17This middle window flies out, my computer falls, and I understand perfectly well that this is an explosion.
00:25I feel sorry for the people. These are the last creatures.
00:37They won't go to Dnipropetrovsk. They need Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
00:42Why? What are their plans?
00:45They'll make a mess there, then they'll go to another city and make a mess there, and then there.
00:51Three years into the war, Russian troops are now making steady territorial gains in eastern Ukraine.
00:56Russia has captured seven times more territory in 2024 than it did in 2023.
01:02At the moment, the enemy is on active offensive. We are in defense and counterattacking.
01:09The situation is very difficult due to the fact that the enemy is defeating us in large numbers in artillery, infantry, AT-BT vehicles.
01:23Our ongoing support for Ukraine.
01:25The United States authorized Kiev to use long-range weapons against targets in Russian territory in 2024,
01:31which it used for the first time in November to target a military facility in the Bryansk region, southwest of Moscow.
01:38In a surprising incursion, Ukraine captured swaths of territory in Russia's border region of Kursk last August.
01:44It still controls several hundred square kilometers in the region.
01:48But its grip has slipped, with Kiev saying it now holds barely a third of the area it captured last year.
01:55Ukraine is also facing issues with filling its ranks.
01:58Ukraine has had considerable challenges.
02:00Our estimate is that at the front line, it's probably short of between 50,000 and 100,000 troops.
02:07More and more soldiers are abandoning the front line.
02:10Figures published by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office show that more than 90,000 cases have been opened
02:16into instances of soldiers going absent without leave or deserting since Russia invaded in 2022.
02:22Even just being under siege, you gradually get, how should I put it, nervous.
02:31You're always nervous, you're constantly changing.
02:35You start to get very nervous.
02:41Ukraine is struggling against better-equipped Russian troops, now thought to be reinforced by North Korean soldiers.
02:47Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Pyongyang of deploying 11,000 soldiers to help Moscow.
03:09Away from the front, signs of war fatigue are spreading amongst the population.
03:14Moscow's bombing campaigns against Ukrainian energy infrastructure regularly plunge civilians into cold and darkness.
03:39Donald Trump's return to the White House has shaken up the war.
03:42Vladimir Putin has agreed to negotiations with the U.S. president, but so far has refused to do so with Zelenskyy.
04:02Over the past three years, the U.S. and its allies have insisted that no decisions on the war can take place without Ukraine.
04:10But Trump has announced plans to hold peace talks with Putin in Saudi Arabia.
04:14We had a great call and it lasted for a long time, over an hour this morning.
04:21I also had with President Zelenskyy a very good call after that.
04:26And I think we're on the way to getting peace.
04:29I think President Putin wants peace and President Zelenskyy wants peace, and I want peace.
04:35I just want to see people stop getting killed.
04:37Concerns are now mounting in Kiev and amongst European allies that the war will be settled without them.
04:43We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started, because it plays to Russia's court.
04:50And it is what they want. Why are we giving them everything that they want even before the negotiations have even started?
04:58It's appeasement. It has never worked.
05:00Putin appears completely unwilling to compromise on his war aims, and let's be quite clear what his war aims are.
05:07Regime change in Ukraine, Ukraine largely disarmed, Ukraine politically unable to move towards the EU, NATO or the Western world, effectively a satellite state of Russia.
05:20It also means Russia controlling the Crimea and those four eastern and southern oblasts.
05:30On the ground, soldiers also remain sceptical.
05:37They will stay where they are at the moment.
05:40There will be some kind of demarcation line, but in time, forces and missiles will regroup and strike again.
05:51They won't leave their plan.
05:53They have a task to destroy Ukraine and the Ukrainian nation.
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