DAILY ON DEFENSE: • Russia losing more ground • 'Dozens of settlements liberated' • More HIMARS, precision ammo
RUSSIA LOSING MORE GROUND: As Russian President Vladimir Putin was signing documents in the Kremlin’s gilded St. George’s Hall claiming that four regions of Ukraine were now part of Russia, his forces in two of those regions were suffering more embarrassing battlefield setbacks in the face of a steady advance of Ukrainian troops.
“The Ukrainian army is carrying out a pretty fast and powerful advance in the south of our country as part of the current defense operation. Dozens of settlements have already been liberated from the Russian sham referendum this week alone,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky in his daily video address to Ukrainians.
“The HIMARS are pretty famous because you've seen how the Ukrainians can use these capabilities to take out critical Russian logistics nodes, command and control nodes, ammunition depots … and really weaken the Russian forces' ability to respond,” said Laura Cooper, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia at a Pentagon briefing.
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