Russia seizes extra villages, says Ukraine can not win warfare

Russia stated on Monday (November 10, 2025) it was delusional to assume Ukraine might win the warfare, whereas Moscow’s military stated it had captured three extra villages on the sprawling entrance line.

Moscow is making an attempt to press its benefit in manpower and gear however territorial beneficial properties have been sluggish and expensive.

Both sides are closely entrenched, virtually 4 years after Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine.

“The Europeans believe that Ukraine can win the war and secure its interests through military means,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated.

“This is the deepest delusion indulged in by the Kyiv regime. The situation on the front indicates the opposite,” he stated in a briefing name with reporters.

The Russian Defence Ministry stated on Monday (November 10, 2025) it had seized the villages of Slodkie and Nove within the Zaporizhzhia area of Ukraine and Gnativka within the Donestk area.

Peskov stated the warfare would solely finish “when Russia achieves the objectives it set at the beginning”.

Moscow has stated it’s preventing to guard Russian audio system within the east of Ukraine, to forestall the NATO army bloc transferring eastwards and to take away “neo-Nazis” from energy in Ukraine — all of which have been rejected as baseless by Kyiv and its Western companions.

They say the battle, which has resulted within the deaths of tens of hundreds of individuals and has spiralled into Europe’s largest since World War II, is nothing greater than an imperial-style land seize.

Efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump to pressure a peace deal have stalled. Moscow has rejected calls to comply with a ceasefire and drop its calls for.

Russian officers have stated they may solely focus on halting the offensive if Ukraine fully pulls out of the jap Donbas area and renounces Western army assist.

Kyiv says these calls for are non-starters, can be tantamount to capitulation and would go away it uncovered to an extra Russian assault.

Peskov stated Russia had the initiative on the entrance and wouldn’t cease.