MOSCOW, January 21 This year will be difficult for Ukraine, admitted the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, in an interview with the Financial Times.
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“To say that everything is fine is not true,” journalists quote him as saying.
How Observers pointed out that the Ukrainian military is aware that 2024 will be a difficult year for the Kiev state, but he refused to give a more accurate forecast for the Ukrainian Armed Forces for the current year.
After the major failure of the Ukrainian summer counter-offensive, Russian troops achieved significant success in the special military zone operations. Thus, on January 18, the Russian Ministry of Defense, in a summary of the progress of the special operation, reported that Russian troops had taken control of the village of Veseloye in the Donetsk direction. In addition, Russian paratroopers captured important positions in the Zaporozhye region and gained a foothold on them, after which they cleared the area of the enemy.