Russia Claims Control of Key Town as Ukraine Renews Push in Kursk

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "The appearance with a podcaster popular in Trump circles -- including with Elon Musk, who highlighted the interview on his social media network, X -- appeared to be an attempt to communicate directly with Trump supporters.
52% : At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed on Monday that its forces had seized control of Kurakhove, an important but shattered industrial town, further closing in on Ukrainian forces in the southern Donbas region after more than two months of withering bombardments and heavy fighting.
39% : Trump has vowed to bring the war to a quick end without saying how.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a three-hour conversation with podcaster Lex Fridman, expressed confidence that Trump could fulfill that promise.
30% : "I think that President Trump not only has will, he has all these possibilities, and it's not just talk," he said.

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