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As the Russia-Ukraine war reaches its 800th day, battle continues with little hope for a resolution; Russia says it curbed overnight drone attacks from Ukraine.

“It is probably a matter of time,” before strategic city of Chasiv Yar falls to the Russians, said Vadym Skibitsky.

Ukraine is facing "a new stage" in the Russia's full-scale war, President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a meeting with border guards in Khmelnytskyi Oblast on May 3.

As the Russia-Ukraine war reaches its 800th day, battle continues with little hope for a resolution; Russia says it curbed overnight drone attacks from Ukraine.

A Ukrainian unit is using M2 Brownings on the back of pickup trucks to try to shoot down Russia's expensive Shahed drones and spy planes.

"Not today or tomorrow, of course, but all depending on our reserves and supplies," a military intelligence deputy head, Major General Vadym Skibitsky, said in an interview with The Economist published on May 2.

The Russians want to take it by a "sacred date."

514,000 soldiers are fighting on the side of the Russia against Ukraine, said the deputy head of the HUR, Major General Vadym Skibitskyi.

Vladimir Putin appears to have tellingly renewed his favor for his former bodyguard, Tula Oblast Governor Alexei Dyumin, according to the latest report of the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War released on May 2.

Russia is preparing for an offensive in the Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts in the northeast, Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, said in an interview with The Economist on May 2.