Kyiv time on June 15, there were 86 combat clashes on the front lines. One-third of them occurred in the Pokrovsk direction, informs the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Enemy shelling Today,

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Military leaders and analysts alike are questioning whether any level of battlefield attrition can alter Russia’s efforts to occupy still more of Ukraine. Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi admitted in November,