This week, heavy fighting raged all along the front lines. Russia continued to strike cities and towns across Ukraine with missiles and drones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukraine bolsters domestic defense production. Its homemade Peklo cruise missile has entered series production with around 100 pieces of weapon manufactured in the past three months. Despite the pledges made at the NATO Washington summit to send more air defense systems, Ukraine still doesn\u2019t have them, Zelenskyi said. Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia, according to The Economist. Earlier in the week, the head of Russia\u2019s chemical forces was killed in a blast in Moscow claimed by Ukraine\u2019s Security Service. Ukraine struck an oil refinery in Russia\u2019s Rostov region that services the military. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Four and a half months into the Kursk incursion, Ukraine has lost \u201cabout half\u201d of the territories it once controlled in Russia\u2019s region. Every Ukrainian unit in Kursk is now on the defensive, The Economist said. More than 200 North Korean troops were wounded in a few days in Kursk region, an intercepted audio reveals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The EU adopted a 15th package of sanctions against Russia that also hit China and North Korea. No world leader can negotiate with Putin on Ukraine without Ukraine, Zelenskyi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked during a call-in show Thursday how Russia manages \u201cnot only to stay afloat but also to continue growing,\u201d Putin said Russians grew \u201cbored\u201d when life was stable but expressed horror when bullets were flying, alluding to Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine. \u201cYou know, when everything is calm, measured, stable, we get bored. Stagnation. We want some action. As soon as the action starts, everything whistles by our temples. Unfortunately, bullets are whistling now. We are so scared. What a horror. Well, it’s not that horror. Not horror-horror,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n