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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 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 Regrettably, the group of forces protecting the border didn't have its own intelligence assets,
he said on a channel of his messaging app While one-third of them [the armoured vehicles] are restraining the stronghold, the others are bypassing it by entering nearby settlements and organising ambushes.”
A Russian military blogger, Rybar, semi-independent of the Kremlin, summarising the approach said We arrived on Monday last week. It had been equipped two days before that,
a surgeon told the Guardian between puffs on a cigarette We are playing here a bit on the psychological point that great powers do not lose their territories,
said Mykola Bielieskov, a senior analyst from Come Back Alive, a foundation that provides support to members of Ukraine’s military The 2024 Battle of Kursk warns the Putin regime: Your tyranny is fragile and cannot continue on its present track.”
The Battle of Kursk in 1943 was the single largest We continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Kursk region,
Syrsky declared in a video posted on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s social media accounts You can only squeeze something out, get something, if they understand that [the war] is not going according to their scenario,