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Zelensky warns ceding Sloviansk and Kramatorsk could open path to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia's demand that Ukraine withdraw from Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Druzhkivka would expose Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to a further Russian advance. He named Pavlohrad and Dnipro as possible next targets, and said the Ukrainian-held part of Donetsk Oblast is a heavily fortified defensive line that would be lost. The warning came in an English-language podcast, Diary Of A CEO.
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Budanov denies Russian capture of Dobropillia, accuses Russian commander of misleading Putin
On 20 October, Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Office of the President, publicly rejected Russian claims that Russian forces had captured the city of Dobropillia in Donetsk Oblast, saying the city remains under Ukrainian control. He accused the commander of Russia's "Centre" grouping, Colonel-General Andrii Ivanaiev, of deliberately misleading President Vladimir Putin about the alleged capture, and linked his statement to ongoing "difficult negotiations" aimed at a durable peace.