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Russia said connected Monday (November 10, 2025) it was delusional to deliberation Ukraine could triumph the war, portion Moscow's service said it had captured 3 much villages connected the sprawling beforehand line.
Moscow is trying to property its vantage successful manpower and instrumentality but territorial gains person been dilatory and costly.
Both sides are heavy entrenched, astir 4 years aft Russia launched its all-out penetration of Ukraine.
"The Europeans judge that Ukraine tin triumph the warfare and unafraid its interests done subject means," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
"This is the deepest delusion indulged successful by the Kyiv regime. The concern connected the beforehand indicates the opposite," helium said successful a briefing telephone with reporters.
The Russian Defence Ministry said connected Monday (November 10, 2025) it had seized the villages of Slodkie and Nove successful the Zaporizhzhia portion of Ukraine and Gnativka successful the Donestk region.
Peskov said the warfare would lone extremity "when Russia achieves the objectives it acceptable astatine the beginning".
Moscow has said it is warring to support Russian speakers successful the eastbound of Ukraine, to forestall the NATO subject bloc moving eastwards and to region "neo-Nazis" from powerfulness successful Ukraine — each of which person been rejected arsenic baseless by Kyiv and its Western partners.
They accidental the conflict, which has resulted successful the deaths of tens of thousands of radical and has spiralled into Europe's largest since World War II, is thing much than an imperial-style onshore grab.
Efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump to unit a bid woody person stalled. Moscow has rejected calls to hold to a ceasefire and driblet its demands.
Russian officials person said they volition lone sermon halting the violative if Ukraine wholly pulls retired of the eastbound Donbas portion and renounces Western subject support.
Kyiv says those demands are non-starters, would beryllium tantamount to capitulation and would permission it exposed to a further Russian attack.
Peskov said Russia had the inaugural connected the beforehand and would not stop.
