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"Our men are holding back... 50,000 of the occupier's army personnel who, due to the Kursk operation, cannot be deployed to other Russian offensive directions on our territory," the Ukrainian president said.

One assumes that a Dane reading that statement now would wince, just as any person in any country occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II would be embarrassed by evidence that fellow citizens acted so sycophantically towards an oppressive and lawless occupier.

But, she said, the anger is “more towards Israel as an occupier.”

"Today, the occupier attacked the vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross humanitarian mission," he said.

"Our soldiers and units are doing everything to destroy the occupier and repel the attacks," the Ukrainian president said, stressing the situation was "under control".