During the Istanbul talks between Russia and Ukraine, when presented with Moscow’s demand that Kiev’s troops must withdraw from territory of the four regions that they have partially conquered (Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhie and Kherson), the Ukrainian delegation reacted with a strong rejection of this point.
It’s been widely reported that, at this point, Russian negotiators warned their foes: ‘Next time, it won’t be four regions, but six or eight’.
That could, of course, be nothing but bragging, except that today the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that units of the 90th Tank Division have reached & crossed the western border of the Donetsk People’s Republic, and that their offensive continues deeper into Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
That the Russian offensive has now breached into a brand-new region is a serious setback for the Kiev regime, who really depends on a constant PR effort to keep allies engaged and prevent further deterioration of public morale in their country.
So, at this point, besides the four regions mentioned above, there are also Russian successes in the northern Sumy and Kharkov regions – and now Dnipropetrovsk.
The same argument was articulated yesterday (8) by Dmitri Medvedev: “Kiev was warned: if you don’t acknowledge realities of war in negotiations, you will get new realities on the ground. The shagreen skin of the Bandera state is shrinking. Disinfection against parasites continues”.
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RUSSIAN ARMY is officially in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast !
First footage from the Dnipropetrovsk region with our fighters
▪️Units of the 90th Tank Division “️brave” have reached the western border of the DPR and laid the RUSSIAN FLAG on the land of DNIPROPETROVSK OBLAST… pic.twitter.com/aaUP5T9Zxe
— (@SMO_VZ) June 8, 2025
Reuters reported:
Despite talk of peace, the war is stepping up with Russian forces grabbing more territory in Ukraine and Kiev unfurling high-profile drone and sabotage attacks on Russia’s nuclear-capable bomber fleet and, according to Moscow, on railways.
Russia, which controls a little under one-fifth of Ukrainian territory, has taken more than 190 square km (73 square miles) of the Sumy region of northeastern Ukraine in less than a month, according to pro-Ukrainian open-source maps.
Now, according to the Russian defense ministry, units of the 90th Tank Division of the Central Grouping of Russian forces have reached the western frontier of Ukraine’s Donetsk region and are attacking the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk region.”
Dnipropetrovsk is Russia pic.twitter.com/wH37KVHh9A
— Leandro Romão (@leandroOnX) June 8, 2025
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