8 November 2025
Details: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has marked the Day of Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces on 8 November 2025 by stressing that their actions have been keeping the Pokrovsk front and Donetsk Oblast from Russian occupation.
Source: Interfax-Ukraine, a Ukrainian news agency, citing Zelenskyy at a ceremony awarding air assault forces
Quote: “Thanks to our Air Assault Forces, the Pokrovsk front holds, the Dobropillia operation holds, and our Donetsk Oblast, our Kharkiv Oblast and our southern oblasts hold. The heroic Kursk operation was also made possible by our paratroopers.”
More details: Zelenskyy said that Ukraine’s best results are unimaginable without the achievements of the air assault forces.
Background: Zelenskyy reported earlier that 314 Russian soldiers are present in Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast. Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces say Russian troops have reduced their activity in the city as they await reinforcements.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/11/08/8006444
“Zelenskyy reported earlier that 314 Russian soldiers are present in Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast. Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces say Russian troops have reduced their activity in the city as they await reinforcements.”
Three hundred fourteen cockroaches? How does he know this precise number? Even if true, that’s actually nothing. It should be nothing.
Either destroy them, or destroy the roach logistics, or mine and booby-trap the city and pull out.