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They clearly have achieved a degree of surprise which suggests that Russia's ability to do intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance is inadequate,
he said in a phone interview We have enough forces, there are already successes there, our aviation is working,
Russian lawmaker Victor Zavarzin told state-aligned Moscow radio station Govorit Moskva on Friday when asked if the situation in the Kursk region warranted a full-scale draft effort Ukrainian forces are reportedly present in areas as far as 35 kilometres from the international border,
the ISW said in its daily campaign assessment The war has come to us, so all the relatives have gone to Moscow,
AFP heard a woman with her young daughter saying at the station In a few hours our town was turned into ruins ... Our relatives are left behind, we can't call them, there is no communication. Please help us get our land back,
one resident said in the video Russia will be held accountable for this terror,
Zelensky said in a post on Telegram About 20,000 people need to be evacuated
from 28 settlement ... Ukraine's national police force said Everyone can see that the Ukraine army knows how to surprise and knows how to achieve results,
Russia brought the war to our land and should feel what it has done,
he said in his nightly address Russian terrorists hit an ordinary supermarket and a post office. There are people under the rubble,
president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said We don’t know the Ukrainian units involved, their strength, logistics, or combat and aviation support. Zooming out territorial gains are so far modest,
The enemy is not only employing military weapons against us, but also so-called ‘psychological special forces’. Its goal is to sow panic among the population, to create an uncontrollable situation and chaos,
So the idea is that Ukrainians just stole a march on them,
If we take a step back, it looks to me like the first time that Ukraine’s state forces have invaded Russia,
Frank Ledwidge, a former British military intelligence officer and senior lecturer in war studies at England’s University of Portsmouth, told NBC News It is consistent with our policy,
deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh told a news briefing It is possible that the second line of Russian defence in the region has been partially breached. The offensive of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk area is likely to lead to the redeployment of Russian Federation units from other areas to ensure the defence of Russian units and counterattacks against Ukrainian forces in the region,
This is another targeted attack on a crowded place, another act of terror by the Russians,
Donetsk regional head Vadym Filashkin said in a Telegram post The lack of a coherent Russian response to the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk … and the reported rate of Ukrainian advance indicates that Ukrainian forces were able to achieve operational surprise,
the Washington-based ISW said late Thursday The operational situation in the Kursk region remains difficult,
Kursk acting governor Alexei Smirnov said on Telegram Ukrainians are in the Kursk region; part of Sudzha is under Ukrainian control. It's a regional center. Yes, it's true. There is no official confirmation, but it's true. There are tanks, there are armored personnel carriers, there is a colossal number of drones...,