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We don't know what to do. We cry day and night, every day. We don't know what we are going to do,
said 70-year-old Zinaida Tarasyuk, another evacuee collecting humanitarian aid I was very scared, very scared,
Nina Golinyaeva, a former resident of the border town of Sudzha, told AFP at an evacuation centre in Kursk city, the regional capital We will continue to maintain communication with the international community to play a constructive role for the political settlement of the crisis,
That large numbers of Russians are surrendering on the soil of Russia itself, casts the Russian military in a very different light,
The situation is very dynamic and there are a lot of variables and changes, so the images and videos only tell a certain part of the events,
said Emil Kastehelmi, a military analyst with Finland-based Black Bird Group that analyzes open source intelligence The Russian government has tried its best to conceal the extent of its failure in Kursk from the Russian people, but modern-day communications technology, above all social media and the internet, has made that impossible,
said Rajan Menon, director of the grand strategy program at Defense Priorities, a Washington-based think tank By geolocating images and videos and analyzing the material and the general situation in the direction, we can still say Ukraine holds the initiative and further gains are possible,
Russia does not establish who has authority … The Ministry of Defense is responsible for military operations inside Ukraine, but not inside Russia, right?,
Russia is still piecing together its response to Ukraine's invasion. So far, it has only been a rather slow and scattered reaction,
he said during an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations With every passing day there is less and less time to collect personal belongings and leave for safer regions,
the Ukrainian military authorities said according to The Associated Press, urging civilians in the town to evacuation as quickly as possible They have also begun to construct additional defensive positions in an effort to prevent Ukrainian advances,
There is information in both open and closed sources that all [Ukrainian troop] gatherings and military and analytical reports were communicated two weeks in advance, a month in advance, five days in advance, and two days in advance
Our Ukrainian drones work exactly as they should, but unfortunately, there are things that cannot be done with drones alone,
the Ukrainian president said in his nightly address Wednesday The main risk is that the Ukrainians choose to try and consolidate and hold ground that lengthens the front line,
said Matthew Savill, military sciences director at the Royal United Services institute in London That's the kind of mistake the Russian forces along the line of control typically don't make,
This Ukrainian operation represents a very significant effort on the part of the Ukrainians to reset the status quo in the war, and change narratives about Ukraine prospects in this war,
Russia seems to do quite poorly when it has to respond dynamically in a situation like this,
said military analyst Michael Kofman of the Carnegie Endowment in a podcast Regrettably, the group of forces protecting the border didn't have its own intelligence assets,
he said on a channel of his messaging app We need to inflict significant tactical defeats on Russia,
Podolyak wrote on the Telegram messaging app General Syrskyi also reported on the completion of the liberation of the town of Sudzha from the Russian military."