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Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, believes that there is nothing controversial about the fact that Ukrainian soldiers have stepped back to the outskirts of the town of Marinka, which the Russians have been devastating street by street and house by house for almost two years.
Source: Zaluzhnyi during a briefing on 26 December, when asked if the Russians had indeed captured Marinka
Quote from Zaluzhnyi: "The situation is exactly the same as it was in [the war-torn town of] Bakhmut – street by street, block by block, and our soldiers were being targeted – and the result is what it is. This is a war, so the fact that we have now retreated to the outskirts of Marinka and set up positions behind Marinka in some areas is nothing that can cause any public outcry. Sadly, this is what war is like."
Details: The military official stressed that every inch of Ukrainian land is vital, but "the lives of our soldiers are even more important to us".
Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief on Marinka: There's nothing controversial about retreating
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, believes that there is nothing controversial about the fact that Ukrainian soldiers have stepped back to the outskirts of the town of Marinka, which the Russians have been devastating street by street and house by house for...